Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the… — Robbie Kay Copy Share Image
With 'Grimm,' it's a lot of fun for me to be able to play within the familiar world of fairy tales. As… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
“As in most fairy tales, there's a prince and a princess, dragons and some magic, and the feeling it gives you that… — Crystal Woods Copy Share Image
“It dawned on her as she grew older, that fairy tales instilled false hopes in people, and that no white knights existed… — Alexis Lawrence Copy Share Image
“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“A boy was regarded King to be, in a land only a child could see. We admit it could be a difficult… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“OMG. He's a gift shop, a lamb kebab with mint,/a solar panel poetry machine with biceps. He's the path/through the dark woods,… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
“What I mean is, all the terrible things that happen in fairy tales seem real. Or not real, but genuine. Life is… — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My first and last philosophy ... I learnt in the nursery... The things I believed then, the things I believe most now,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Right,” she said. “Come down off that chair. I think we are ready for the next step.” “What do you mean?” “I… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities. For a long time I boasted that I was master of all… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“In The Frog Prince, a beautiful princess drops her golden ball into a deep spring and must allow a frog into her… — Bryan Christy Copy Share Image
“We said ‘pretty women in the sea,’ and that was good enough, because who doesn’t want there to be pretty women in… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I think that true love, fairy tales, the positive messages of positive stories - I don't think those ever die. Sometimes we… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“After all, in fairy tales, there was only one thing to do. In every story with a long sleep and a waking… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
The problem with fairy tales is that they set a girl up for disappointment. In real life, the Prince goes off with… — Aashi Copy Share Image
From as far back as I can remember, I always loved the King Arthur stories, fairy tales, mythology - things like that.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“What do you mean 'speaking of fairy tales'? Since when do fairy tales include gigolos?" Annie asked. "Well, since most fairy-tale princes… — Elle Aycart Copy Share Image
In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show… — Brian Wicker Copy Share Image
“She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote 'Woods,' a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Bad in good and good in bad, see the life you could have had? Your life is the keyhole, and you are… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
![“They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.” quote by Jane Yolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a23/jane-yolen-7302_emotion_they-fairy-tales-are-talking-about-real_2877612.jpg)
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