Fairy Quotes - Page 36

• Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers have. If bad guilt is a monster, good guilt is a friendly fairy godmother, yakking away in your head to keep you alert to the needs of your baby.

  Jean Marzollo

  Baby, Children, Responsibility

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• In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

  Jane Porter

  Dream, War, Expectations

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• Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.

  Patience Strong

  Sunshine, Winter, Touching

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Children, Green, Who We Are

  Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

  Evelyn Keyes

  Girl, Fairy Stories, Fantasy

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• People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

  Kate Bernheimer

  Thinking, People, Sensual

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• I don't mind most religious people, I talk to them. I listen to them, you know, banging on. "I prayed very hard and then the fairy came." "Did he? Good. Have a biscuit." I only get annoyed when they try and make me see the fairy. "You have to let the fairy into your heart." Look, I wouldn't let him into my garden, okay? I'd shoot him on sight, if he existed, which he doesn't. Now have another biccie and be quiet, will you please?

  Dylan Moran

  Religious, Heart, Garden

  "What It Is". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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• In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkable… That’s why it’s very important for me to show the artificiality of it all, because the real horrors of the world are unmatchable, and they’re too profound.  It’s much easier to absorb – to be entertained by it, but also to let it affect you psychologically – if it’s done in a fake, humorous, artificial way.

  Cindy Sherman

  Real, Humorous, Horror Stories

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• I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write a world that seems true and real, never more than when expecting readers to believe in magic and angels and fairies.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Believe, Responsibility

  Exclusive Books Interview, blog.exclus1ves.co.za.

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• Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spring, Drama, Autumn

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• If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe in parthenogenesis, ascension, transubstantiation and all the rest of it you are deemed fit to govern the country.

  Jonathan Meades

  Country, Believe, Garden

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• One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

  Christina Hendricks

  Appreciate, Pirate, Stories

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• I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Home, Broken

  "Angelina Jolie: I thought I'd never find love" By Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2014.

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• All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Sea, Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different.

  Dolly Parton

  Easter, Believe, Trying

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• You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Cake, Would Be, Four

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• What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.

  Charlie Cox

  Stars, Real, Fall

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when youre not feeling very well, or as a child.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Children, Feelings, Logic

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• I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Rain, Sound

  "Witches Abroad". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Fairy Stories, People

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• I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.

  David Copperfield

  Saws, Slave, Distraction

  David Copperfield “The Works of Charles Dickens”

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• You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out of nowhere, handed me a Beretta Model 92, and told me to shoot the white rabbit over there for target practice.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Practice, White

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.99, Random House

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• It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

  Jack Zipes

  Once Upon A Time, Fairy Tale, Certain

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• Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians: Christie's Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

  Dolly Parton

  Art, Hair, Shoes

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