A. P. Herbert Quotes

Bus driver, bus driver, the sirens have gone,The bombs may come down, but the buses go on;Bus driver, I know you won't think me a snobIf I whisper: 'Bus driver, I don't want your job'.

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• A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

  

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• Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

  

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• I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.

  

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• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

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• Bus driver, bus driver, the sirens have gone,The bombs may come down, but the buses go on;Bus driver, I know you won't think me a snobIf I whisper: 'Bus driver, I don't want your job'.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • May
  • Job