Alfonso Soriano Quotes

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.

We didn't grow up rich people.

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!

Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

Money can't buy poverty.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

I never felt poverty as a child as we never knew anything else.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.