Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 17

• Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Believe, Comforting, Used

  5 Copy quote

• Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.

  Regina Brett

  Father, Book, Reality

  5 Copy quote

• The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Real, Imagination, Interesting

  8 Copy quote

• I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

  Amy Tan

  Kids, Stories, Gothic

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Teenage, Men

  "Ernie Harwell, in His Own Words" by Tyler Kepner, bats.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mean, Years, Exploring The World

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Ends, Tales

  4 Copy quote

• In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

  Donna Shalala

  Children, Caring, Adults

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just incredible. They’re not childlike at all, they’re really, really deep; you can rule your life by them. Or say 'child-like', because children are the most brilliant people of all, that’s why they relate to those stories so well. Fairy-tales are wonderful.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Boys, People

  7 Copy quote

• We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

  Cass Sunstein

  Connections, Tales, Temper

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

  Taylor Swift

  Guy, Black, Capes

  6 Copy quote

• The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.

  Chris Weitz

  Children, Father, Struggle

  Source: collider.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male pederasts. Children are often told in The Arabian Nights, "This man likes to abduct boys, be careful of him." These issues are explored through the medium of the stories, but actually the architecture of the book is such that there are many examples of women who are loyal, brave, devoted - especially to their lovers.

  Marina Warner

  Children, Husband, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Real, Princess

  8 Copy quote

• With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Reading, Years

  4 Copy quote

• I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.

  Selena Gomez

  Crazy, Princess, Perfect

  4 Copy quote

• Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Zebras, Butterfly, Thinking

  Song: Little Wing

  156 Copy quote

  Show source

• The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail, and the subtle lines of its body. [...] She sat, a tiny thing, in the middle of a yellow carpet, surrounded by five worshipppers, not at all afraid of us. Then she stalked around that floor of the house, inspecting every inch of it, climbed up on to my bed, crept under the fold of a sheet, and was at home.

  Doris Lessing

  Home, Cat, Yellow

  7 Copy quote

• Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while literary fairy tales (including most of the tales that are best known today) were published primarily for adult readers until the 19th century.

  Terri Windling

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Dream, Children, Believe

  "The Lost Princess of Oz". Book by L. Frank Baum, 1917.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The dead have need of fairy tales too.

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Needs, Fairy, Tales

  Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Beautiful, Blue, Joy

  43 Copy quote

• Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

  Marianne Moore

  Christmas, Fire, Yule

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.228, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

  Layne Staley

  Reality, Light, Addiction

  "Layne Staley Unchained". Pandemonium Magazine, Vol#29, April 1995.

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.

  Jackie Robinson

  Girl, Dream, Stars

  65 Copy quote