Paddington Quotes

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

Michael Bond

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

Michael Bond

#5. Mister?" she snapped.

"Paddington?" he shot back.

Shelly Laurenston

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

Peter Porter

#7. 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

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

Colin Greenwood

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

Michael Bond

#10. 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

#11. When the Lord's sheep are a dirty grey, all black sheep are more
comfortable.

Vance Havner

#12. Thanks to the people that walked in to my life and made it better. And thanks to the ones who walked out and made it amazing

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#13. Love is its own reward ...

Thomas Merton

#14. Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star ... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

Albert Camus

#15. I knew that now, reading it in the oversensitized state of my mind after much too much brandy, I would remember it somewhere, and afterwards it would seem as though it had really happened to me. I would always have it. That was another good thing you paid for and then had.

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. That terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

Danielle Steel

#17. I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.

Naomi Campbell

#18. Nothing in this world takes over your blood like a murder case, nothing demands you, mind and body, with such a huge and blazing and irresistible voice.

Tana French

#19. My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

Patti Smith