Morris Gleitzman Quotes

I want to help children develop strengths that allow them to feel they don't have to push things away mentally... If we 'cotton-ball' kids, it produces adults who are too scared to think for themselves and are easily manipulated.

Morris Gleitzman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

John Major

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Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented - Belgian chocolates, ripe bananas, almond croissants, stone-ground raisin bread - often so much it would have fed a hundred people.

Tristram Stuart

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But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

Robert Falcon Scott

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British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.

Tom Ford

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I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

Ruth Reichl

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Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.

Michael Scheuer

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Milton Friedman

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I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.

Denzel Washington

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I am interested in work that jumps boundaries, and that makes trouble. Part of me is comfortable with that: with being a bit of a troublemaker.

David Shields

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I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

Anthony Shadid

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I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.

Wynter Gordon

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Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people?

Sebastian Thrun

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