"Anything that gets children reading is fine." — Michael Morpurgo
"Anything that gets children reading is fine."
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Michael Morpurgo
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70 Quotes by Michael Morpurgo
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I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The…
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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether…
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There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.
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Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I…
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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not…
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Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than…
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A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you…
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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because…
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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