Morris Gleitzman Quotes

In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.

Morris Gleitzman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 9, 1953

Topics

ChangeGreatReadingYearAustralia

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

John Abizaid

PeopleControlThinkKeyYouDone

When you love something, it never goes away.

Jennifer Lynch

LoveYouNeverAwaySomethingGoes

More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god and the rain god, only vaguely concerned with the political entity known as Guatemala.

Stephen Kinzer

GodRainProudPoliticalMoreCorn

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

Tommy Shaw

MusicTimePeopleThinkAttention

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

Rupi Kaur

MomentSchoolWritingRememberWhere

I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.

Lloyd Shapley

MathematicsMyselfThinkRemember

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

Denise Mina

ThoughtBadFindCrimeEvidenceGuy

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

ExperienceLearnUniqueOthersHuman

It's OK to want to look and feel your best. It's OK to work at being attractive, whatever that means to you. And it's also OK to not expect to be defined by that. It's OK to be powerful in every way: to be big, to take up space. To breathe and thrive.

Claire Danes

WorkBestSpaceThriveYouPowerful

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.

Annette Funicello

WomenMenDownWhyExplainTwice

Parents can't monitor what you are doing on Snapchat.

Ansel Elgort

ParentsDoingYouSnapchatMonitor

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

William J. H. Boetcker

ManStrongBetterStrong ManBrick

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