"If I learned anything in this life, I've……" — Michael Morpurgo
"If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on."
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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 Cling Quotes
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
— James A. Baldwin
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Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
— Dirk Benedict
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going…
— Sonny Bono
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of…
— Johannes Brahms
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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And…
— Gabriel Byrne
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One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of…
— Diablo Cody
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always…
— Seneca the Younger
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and…
— Emile Durkheim
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Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling
— Augustus Toplady
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and…
— William Osler
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence;…
— Zhuangzi
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In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
— Elias Canetti
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