Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into the realm beyond words ... It is like that small mirror in… — Vernon Sproxton Copy Share Image
Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
How come all of the most famous fairy tales include a prince or a boy falling in love with a pretty princess… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“The extremity of her sensitivity impressed a richly idle princely family, of her discomfort, bothered as she had to be by the… — Joseph Stanton Copy Share Image
“You've honey on your tongue, ma fifille," Maman once said. "If you'd lived in earlier times, you could have been a troubadour."… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Sofia smiled at me. “You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint—ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you,… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“With a glance back towards the house, he pulled the secret sketches from within. He'd been working at them on and off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“I didn’t believe you when you said there was a red statue that read “LOVE,” with the LO stacked on top of… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Think of the cafeteria as a road map to where you belong.” Danielle pointed to the beautiful people in one corner. “Princesses… — Angela Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“TO DODD, PAPEN’S REMARK ranked as one of the most idiotic he had heard since his arrival in Berlin. And he had… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“The leprechaun, according to legend, can be forced to yield up its treasure if you can keep watching it without letting your… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
I feel bad for all the little girls reading fairy tales about princes who come and save them. They should learn that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“It is our responsibility to keep telling these tales--to tell them in a way that they teach and entertain and give meaning… — Brian Jay Jones Copy Share Image
“I will use my special sight! I will quiet myself right here and now and I will get the answer on what… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“Belle examined the dresses skeptically. Of course, if things went the way they did in fairy tales, they would all fit her… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“Why do I feel this response makes Kartik much like governesses who tell their charges grisly fairy tales before bed and then… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Believing is something that you have grown up with Believing in fairy tales Believing in God Believing in the devil Believing in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
In fairy tales they tell us our first love will last forever... so when we find our first love whether we end… — Samantha Nicole Haynes Copy Share Image
The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You… — David Farr Copy Share Image
You look hot. The straight men will want you, the gay men will want beauty tips, and the women will want to… — Zoey Dean Copy Share Image
“When I am happy and when I really focus, I can! Whatever I dream of with my thoughts becomes a part of… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life.… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“Sick people should look sick, like in fairy tales or on television. They shouldn 't be wearing sexy dresses and shaving their… — Victor Lodato Copy Share Image
Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“By quirk of geography, people did not come unexpectedly to Loeanneth. The estate sat deep in a dell, surrounded by thick, briar-tangled… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“I’m sure I’ve read too many fairy tales. The prince is supposed to slay the dragon, defeat the villain, and marry the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Playing a convincing witch takes a bit of research. I've looked up the old Salem business and reread a lot of fairy… — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
“He didn’t think like other people. He didn’t dismiss magic out of hand, and he didn’t believe that fairy tales were just… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I squared my shoulders, trying to ignore the fact that I was standing in the apartment of the sea witch, wearing a… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“I wish for my child to have a mind as stark and wild as the winter, a spirit as clear and fine… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
![“The extremity of her sensitivity impressed a richly idle princely family, of her discomfort, bothered as she had to be by the absurd softness of the ample beddings, not to mention the pillow piles aggravating her much lamented acrophobic dis-ease. [from the poem, Princess and the Pea ]” quote by Joseph Stanton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b63/joseph-stanton-250502_fairy-tales_the-extremity-of-her-sensitivity-impress_1015868.jpg)
![“It is our responsibility to keep telling these tales--to tell them in a way that they teach and entertain and give meaning to our lives,' he [Jim] said later. 'This is not merely an obligation, it's something we must do because we love doing it.” quote by Brian Jay Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/365/brian-jay-jones-43390_creativity_it-is-our-responsibility-to-keep-telling_1516865.jpg)
