Michael Wood Quotes & Sayings

The tale of someone's life begins before they are born. — Michael Wood

The theologian and the executioner have been intimates throughout history. — Michael Wood

Home is what we know we ought to want but can't really take. America is not so much a home for anyone as a universal dream of home, a wish whose attraction depends upon its remaining at the level of a wish. The movies bring the boys back but stop as soon as they get them back; for home, that vaunted, all-American ideal, is a sort of death, and an oblique justification for all the wandering that kept you away from it for so long. — Michael Wood

People are far too quick to judge others, especially when they don't have the full facts.
--from the book For Reasons Unknown — Michael Wood

The lake district's rain was the price you paid to live amongst such beauty. — Michael Wood