Rob Morrow Quotes

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

Considering history as a moral exercise, her lessons would be too infrequent if confined to real life. Of those recorded by historians few incidents have been attended with such circumstances as to excite in any high degree this sympathetic emotion of virtue. We are, therefore, wisely framed to be as warmly interested for a fictitious as for a real personage. The spacious field of imagination is thus laid open to our use, and lessons may be formed to illustrate and carry home to the heart every moral rule of life. Thus a lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics and divinity that ever were written.

If you want young people to take right and wrong seriously, you must put them in the presence of people who take right and wrong seriously.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Morals, not Art or Literature.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.

When you are bringing up your kids, you hope you have given them some sense of right and wrong, a sense of good and bad.

I'm lucky; I've been raised with the right morals.

I never try to sit down with a moral because kids smell that and run.

I'd like to write a series that, in an adventurous and fun way, teaches kids a way to discern between good and evil, to establish a foundation on moral absolutes.