Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorldGoingBooksKidsReadShould

I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.

John Abercrombie

ListeningBluesUpGuysBarneyGrew

If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich who will probably feel entitled to their wealth and will have the means to defend their interest. That's already gone far enough. We shouldn't let it become more extreme.

Robert J. Shiller

WaitFeelEnoughWealthInequality

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

Andy Stern

SuccessLaborSayMovementWorkers

Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.

Ron Carlson

TodayValueStoryOurHappening

I just know that for my honeymoon, I'm not going to go to a cabin in the woods.

Rose Leslie

WoodsGoKnowHoneymoonCabinGoing

Tom Ford gave me high heels for the baby. They're a little kitten heel with a velvet rope that you tie. It's like a collection piece. I have to put it on the bookshelf, framed.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

MeBabyYouHigh HeelsRopeHigh

A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one's family, a love for where one's really from.

Jason Mraz

LifeFamilyLoveLookNeedStarting

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

TodayMirrorAliveDutyHandOwn

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

David Walliams

ControlAttentionYouWantDifferent

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

Clancy Brown

VoiceGenerationNextWhateverGoing

I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.

Arnaud Desplechin

LovePeopleSpeakSilentAbleWho

I think it would be incredible for this country if we could have our first woman president.

Anna Wintour

WomanThinkCountryPresidentFirst

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