Michael Morpurgo Quotes

You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place and tragic place, so it's more and more difficult for me to find the bright lights.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeWorldFriendsYouLoseFind

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

Jessica Lynch

FamilyMoneyRichBoxLivedCome

I've got a room full of scripts. They go to the ceiling. I can't even hardly walk into it anymore. Most are original, and there are some adaptations like 'Man's Fate.'

Michael Cimino

WalkManFateGoRoomCeiling

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

Stephen Lewis

StrengthHopeGreatAfricaGives

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.

Rosalynn Carter

WorryYouAdmitPollsAbout

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

Roseanne Barr

MomKnowAnythingHow

I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

Loudon Wainwright III

ThinkNewFirstI ThinkAroundBob

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

Javier Perez de Cuellar

LightManI AmFreeFeelFeather

As a listener, we're looking for that person who kind of excites the molecules within us - who knows how to tell the story that resonates deeply to our core and almost prompts us into action. Fats Waller has been that person for decades. When people need a lift, sometimes they go to him. I know I do.

Jason Moran

PeopleLookingActionStoryPerson

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

Jon Meacham

WorkFutureChildrenGreatWork Hard

I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think I'd get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.

Jonas Armstrong

JobMeThinkHoodIndiaCocky

I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the complexity of my identity in a way that is safe and secure, like everyone else.

DeRay Mckesson

LiveManIdentityWorldBlackGay

The best things arrive on time.

Dorothy Gilman

TimeBestThingsArrive

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