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
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings… — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Copy Share Image
“If all relationships started badly, Prince Charming would disappear from every fairy tale ever written and romantic comedies would be filed under… — Marc Levy 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
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
[Angels] aid us in our personal mission. We have to learn to listen, for if we block the angels out, they become… — Silver RavenWolf 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
“Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in when… — Regan Walker Copy Share Image
Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Happily Ever After, if it exists, is the result of working through adversity, proving who you are as a team. It's not… — Sean Develin Copy Share Image
I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if –… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
As a relentless gatherer of moments, I find that my favorite images, although grounded in the present, are like spirits shaped by… — Sylvia Plachy Copy Share Image
The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him,… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at… — Zoe Tapper Copy Share Image
The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
According to a recent survey, kids are receiving an average of 40 cents less from the tooth fairy. That's right, the economy… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If… — Jonathan Meades 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
Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was… — Megan Follows Copy Share Image
Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
I beat my children daily, with a shoe, because I don't want them to grow up fairies. At 9 p.m. I promptly… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair,… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle 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
“The sun was directly overhead, bright against the flower’s exterior. Warm blueish-purple silhouettes pirouetted and danced along interior walls.” — James Qualls 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
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
Naming a fairy is notoriously difficult, because they don't particularly like to be named. There are so many of them, and humans… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem… it is… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image