Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 5, 1943

Topics

EducationFutureHopeChildrenBest

There are plenty of other actors who are wonderful that just don't work in a way that I work, or our methods aren't necessarily compatible. But then there are those you instinctually just are drawn to.

Joe Mantello

WorkYouWayWonderfulJustWho

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

Joe Baca

FamilyCommunitySchoolGraduation

Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.

Jeremy Heimans

PositiveChangeLiveTechnology

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

Jennifer Capriati

ExperienceLongImportantTopOut

I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.

Jennie Garth

YourselfBelieveYouWantThings

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

Matthew Vaughn

HeartBudgetMoreBigGraphic Novels

The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.

John Perry Barlow

PeopleEntertainmentAlwaysIndustry

Gotta watch out for directors.

Stephen Sondheim

OutWatchDirectorsGotta

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

Robin Wright

MotherConfidenceMeMomWhatever

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

Jean de la Bruyere

LoveWomanVoiceSweetestSounds

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Jean de la Bruyere

WomanManBetterOthersSecretOwn

When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?

Deborah Tannen

PositiveEthicsNegativeCompromise

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