Fairy Quotes - Page 18

• I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Science, Thinking

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works of beauty out of themselves. If a good fairy came and offered me back my youth, asking me which gifts I would rather have, those to make visible a thing which exists but which no man has ever seen before, or the genius needed to create, in a style of architecture never imagined before, the great Town Hall in which we are dining tonight, I might be tempted to choose the latter.

  Max Perutz

  Science, Artist, Men

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• A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It has no more blood in it; it is no more alive. Yes, Jews are very earth-bound. And what is wrong in having money? One should not be possessive; one should be able to use it. And Jews know how to use it! One should not be miserly. Money has to be created and money has to be used. Money is a beautiful invention, a great blessing, if rightly used. It makes many things possible. Money is a magical phenomenon.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Money, Real

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• I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn.

  William Henry Hudson

  Nature, Flower, Ivy

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: The book of a naturalist”

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• Sweetheart, when you walk my way,
  Be it dark or be it day;
  Dreary winter, fairy May,
  I shall know and greet you.
  For each day of grief or grace
  Brings you nearer my embrace;
  Love hath fashioned your dear face,
  I shall know you when I meet you.

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Life, Grief, Dark

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• Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Said Life, Years

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.898, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!

  Edith Widder

  Sea, Differences, Once Upon A Time

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• Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime
  With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beach, Science, Long

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.76, Broadview Press

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• And fairy month of waking mirth
  From whom our joys ensue
  Thou early gladder of the earth
  Thrice welcome here anew
  With thee the bud unfolds to leaves
  The grass greens on the lea
  And flowers their tender boon receives
  To bloom and smile with thee.

  John Clare

  Spring, Flower, Joy

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• There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Saint, Culture, May

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• Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Food, Dust, Community

  Jim Gaffigan (2014). “Food: A Love Story”, p.123, Crown Archetype

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• Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Flower, Domes

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.97, Applewood Books

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• I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

  John Stamos

  Beautiful, Good Life, Perfect

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• For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Love, Children, Latin

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• Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

  John Milton

  Heart, Good Luck, Son

  John Milton (2004). “The Complete Poems”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my head, as light and fragile as a soap-bubble, and drifted upon its stately way.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Summer, Ocean, Dark

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2000). “Tales of Unease”, p.95, Wordsworth Editions

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• Sure, I love fairy tales.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Doubt, Atheism, Fairy Tale

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• Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals.

  Doreen Virtue

  Inspiring, Angel, Animal

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2016

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• To connect with the fairies... go outdoors.

  Doreen Virtue

  Inspiring, Angel

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2016

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• The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

  Charles Kingsley

  Angel, Names, Bed

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• God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Pieces, Cheese

  William Shakespeare, David Crane (1997). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.143, Cambridge University Press

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• The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

  Julie Andrews

  Angel, Thinking, Littles

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• Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Life, Change, Happiness

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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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