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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Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

Jodi Picoult

Lying, Book, Pages

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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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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Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

Anna Pavlova

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So the president is like, "Well, once upon a time it was Congress's job to decide whether or not we attacked countries, so let's let them decide." Which is funny, because, as we all know, if Congress were on fire, Congress could not pass the "Pour Water on Congress Act".

Hank Green

Country, Jobs, Fire

YouTube Channel "vlogbrothers"/"Syria in Five Minutes", www.youtube.com. September 13, 2013.

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Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

A. A. Gill

Happy Life, Important Choices, History

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When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

Justine Larbalestier

Echoes, Fiction, Shapes

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Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.

Margaret Atwood

New York, Couple, Writing

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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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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 political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Herbert Hoover

Carpe Diem, History, Political

Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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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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...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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Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stars, Clever, Knowing

Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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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... 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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I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.

Bill Murray

Jobs, Doctors, Ideas

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McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

Graham Chapman

Sorry, Worry, Suffering

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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

Fairy Tale, Certain, Tales

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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, 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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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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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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