Michael Morpurgo Quotes

I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.

Our kids now face pressures that didn’t exist when I was growing up…. As parents, it’s very hard to help our children because their experiences are so different to anything we had.

I don't think parents can protect their kids in this media-nut culture.

Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

The young people today are the 21st century.

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

I am a child of the 21st century.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea where the next huge social movement is going to erupt.

Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.

You love your child, and you want to protect your child more than anything on this planet, and yet, by the time they're 17, 18, they're going to step into this world, and that world will not feel the same compunction, necessarily, toward your daughter.

In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.

Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I'm not sure it's the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

I think I'm slightly older than the generation that was really bred on social media - I had Facebook in high school, but I was growing up in a time where these things were relatively new, and every generation below me is growing up having every single thing they do seen. And that is kind of frightening.

I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.

The Internet has heralded a revolution in our society. It has transformed the way we do business, entertain, communicate, and travel. In many ways, the change has been positive. The web has brought new freedoms, spurred economic growth, and extended the boundaries of knowledge.

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.

There's something unique about coming of age in 2015 with the way the world is.