Once Upon A Time Quotes - Page 6

• Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

  Laini Taylor

  Angel, Two, Devil

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Mother, Father, Kids

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• Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Sky, Monsters

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• Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other...

  Donna J. Haraway

  Fall, Writing, Men

  "A Cyborg Manifesto". Essay by Donna J. Haraway, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1984.

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• Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

  James Joyce

  Baby, Boys, Littles

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 1 (1916)

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• And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Girl, Falling In Love, Boys

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Men, Space, Wife

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1960). “Laughter in the Dark”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a once upon it. Most people will tell you that the once upon a time happened in a land far, far away, but it really depends on where you are. The once upon a time may have been just outside your back door. It may have been beneath your very feet. It might not have been in a land at all but deep in the sea's belly or bobbing around on its back.

  N.D. Wilson

  Sea, Land, Feet

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.1, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Wizards

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• The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

  Peter Abrahams

  Time, Long Ago, Magic

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• Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.

  Vivian Gornick

  Literature, Kind, Metaphor

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

  Carolyn Warner

  Women, Angel, Years

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• ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Valentine, Race

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• Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added the magic swords and lamps they're all about one thing - the good hero fighting the giant or the witch or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil.

  Susan Cooper

  Uncles, Hero, Fighting

  Susan Cooper (2010). “The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she love one of them most of all.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Lying, Book

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Girl, Baseball, Growing Up

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• Once upon a time there were three little foxes
  Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses,
  But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses,
  And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

  A. A. Milne

  Blow, Foxes, Three

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.48, Egmont UK

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• rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.

  Paul Celan

  Scent, Way, Conviction

  Paul. Celan (2011). “Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan”, p.100, Wesleyan University Press

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• A lot of times, I think that what I do for a living has no integrity. 'Once Upon A Time' has changed that to a certain extent because the reaction we get from children out in the world is so fulfilling, I cannot even articulate it. There's nothing like being greeted as Snow White by a hyperventilating child versus Ginnifer Goodwin.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Children, Integrity, Thinking

  "What Made Ginnifer Goodwin 'Freak The Fudge Out?'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, France, Habit

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• Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Horse, Kings

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• Once upon a time we were all born,
  popped out like jelly rolls
  forgetting our fishdom,
  the pleasuring seas,
  the country of comfort,
  spanked into the oxygens of death.

  Anne Sexton

  Country, Oxygen, Sea

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• ...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

  Anita Loos

  Movie, Past, Hollywood

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• Now, we're used to thinking of communism as being once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. And people agree that there is a sort of epic narrative going on here. I think we should just throw this narrative out, it's irrelevant anyway, and who cares who owns things? I don't. You know, we all own the White House. So what? I still can't go in, right?

  David Graeber

  Thinking, Epic, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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