Michael Bond famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.
-- Michael Bond

#Boys #Smell #Special
Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.
-- Michael Bond

#Labels #Looks #Littles
It's nice having a bear about the house.
-- Michael Bond

#Nice #House #Bears
My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
-- Michael Bond

#Daughter #Book #Years
As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.
-- Michael Bond

#Believe #Feet #Dancing
I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.
-- Michael Bond

#Paris #Flying #Flats
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.
-- Michael Bond

#Senior #Writing #Blue

There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.
He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.
Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.
My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

Michael Bond famous quotes

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