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Children Quotes by Michael Morpurgo
- I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've…
- A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of…
- Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
- Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories…
- 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,…
- Anything that gets children reading is fine.
- As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
- Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
- It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
- Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors…
- There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children…
- When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they…
- Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon