Fairy Quotes - Page 13

• Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

  James M. Barrie

  Long, Littles, Short Time

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.130, 谷月社

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• True love was forever lost. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not a princess, after all. So what was the fairy-tale protocol for other kisses? The mundane kind that didn't break any spells? Maybe it would be easy - like holding his hand or having his arms around me. Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't fell like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, anyway? Just myself.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Betrayal, Nice, Princess

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• You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy - all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know - this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don't want a very long courtships. They want to know immediately.

  David Levithan

  Girl, Song, Princess

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• Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Darkness, Swallowing, Stories

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• And what do we have here? A scary monster, cowboy, and a fairy princess! Here's a hit of ecstasy, run along now.

  James St. James

  Running, Princess, Cowboy

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• For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Reality, Rocks, Wings

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.59, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.

  Vera Nazarian

  Moving, Winter, Glasses

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• Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants and of the terrible suffering of beautiful princesses, it holds its head up and its eyes open; but if the mother begins to speak of happiness and sunshine, the little one closes its eyes and falls asleep with its head against her breast. . . . I am a child like that, too. Others may like stories of flowers and sunshine; but I choose the dark nights and sad destinies.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Beautiful, Mother, Children

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• Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

  Kate DiCamillo

  Real, Dragons, Fairy Tale

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• [The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

  Charles Kingsley

  Queens, Science, Years

  Charles Kingsley (2016). “The Water Babies”, p.59, Charles Kingsley

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• The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old, and so on. There is ample scientific evidence that the fundamentalists are wrong in these matters, and that their notions of cosmogony have about as much basis in fact as the Tooth Fairy has.

  Isaac Asimov

  Taken, Years, Matter

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “Asimov on science: a 30-year retrospective”, Doubleday Books

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• A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts. ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather.

  Ron Franscell

  Dream, Bullying, Insecurity

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• [Angels] aid us in our personal mission. We have to learn to listen, for if we block the angels out, they become only the fairy beings of dreams and pleasant stories.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Dream, Block, Angel

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• American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

  Bertrand Tavernier

  Cinema, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there's no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person's property to give it to another to whom it does not belong - in effect, legalized theft.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Giving, Liberty

  "All it takes is guts". Book by Walter E. Williams, 1987.

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• A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Science, Fairy Stories, Facts

  Concept of Mind (1949) introduction

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• In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.

  D. James Kennedy

  Kissing, Two, Years

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• Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

  Duane Gish

  Fairy Tale, Evolution, Tales

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• Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Hate, Philosophical

  "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics". Book by Ray Comfort, 2009.

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• At Halloween, when fairy sprites
  Perform their mystic gambols,
  When ilka witch her neebour greets,
  On their nocturnal rambles;
  When elves at midnight-hour are seen,
  Near hollow caverns sportin,
  Then lads an' lasses aft convene,
  In hopes to ken their fortune,
  By freets that night.

  Janet Little

  Halloween, Kids, Night

  Janet Little, “On Halloween”

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• I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it. But insofar as theology studies the nature of the divine, it will earn the right to be taken seriously when it provides the slightest, smallest smidgen of a reason for believing in the existence of the divine. Meanwhile, we should devote as much time to studying serious theology as we devote to studying serious fairies and serious unicorns.

  Richard Dawkins

  Education, Business, Believe

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• Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Chess, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• Step to this and get shanked up
  I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt

  Big L

  Hip Hop, Teeth, Steps

  Song: Let 'em Have It 'l'

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• Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

  Bertrand Russell

  Support, Comforting, Wish

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• There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love, Dream, Believe

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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