Paddington 2 Quotes

#1. Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

Colin Greenwood

#2. We have replaced the religious passions with Christian social virtues, and to talk of Man's triumph in terms of mercy, charity, or compassion is as senseless as expecting to find a Christ standing his turn of beers in a Paddington public house.

Bill Hopkins

#3. I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

Stephen Fry

#4. As time passes, my story fades away.

Dave Dravecky

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

Michael Bond

#6. Mister?" she snapped.

"Paddington?" he shot back.

Shelly Laurenston

#7. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.

Peter Porter

#8. While we may operate every day under the illusions of control, even our best efforts at maintaining it ultimately fall short.

William McDavid

#9. A Locrian, who proposed any new law, stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.

Edward Gibbon

#10. All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you that right now. Second greatest after having the kids in the first place. When they go, holy smoke, it's like you're dating again. It's fantastic. Also, we were doing an awful lot of work.

Tom Hanks

#11. He next made arrangements to patent his bridge, and to construct at Rotherham the large model of it exhibited on Paddington Green, London.

Thomas Paine

#12. The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?

William Greider

#13. In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

David Souter

#14. Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

Roman Coppola

#15. No lie. I might fuck with your bathroom. But never, ever about this." Rhage's

J.R. Ward

#16. I do not drink more than a sponge.

Francois Rabelais

#17. You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

Jillian Michaels

#18. If everything is energy, which it is - then everything is because of energy.

Serge Benhayon

#19. And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Elton John

#20. The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

Clara Zetkin

#21. I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

Jeanette Winterson

#22. I'm not a criminal," said Paddington, hotly. "I'm a bear!

Michael Bond

#23. My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.

Michael Bond

#24. Post Horses and Conveyances of every description may be ordered by the electric telegraph to be in readiness on the arrival of a train, at either Paddington or Slough Station.

Tom Standage