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Them Quotes by Michael Morpurgo
- Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first…
- Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
- One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are…
- Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors…
- This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men…
- I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but…
- 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.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster