“The host is rushing 'twixt day and night, And where is there hope or deed as fair? Caoilte tossing his burning hair,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Mulan is so important in Chinese folklore - a fearless girl who cared about her family and country so much that she… — Ming-Na Wen Copy Share Image
“The Dreamer awakes The shadow goes by The tale I have told you, That tale is a lie. But listen to me,… — Traditional folktale ending Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs,… — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
The most fascinating thing for me is that 'Peter Pan' is a fairy tale, but now, this Filipino kid is a part… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies. — Richard King Copy Share Image
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Carmen Jones was the first all-Negro film that became a great box-office success. It established the fact that pictures with Negro artists,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence… — Helen Chenoweth-Hage Copy Share Image
William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Early Summer, loveliest season, The world is being colored in. While daylight lasts on the horizon, Sudden, throaty blackbirds sing. The dusty-colored… — Marie Heaney Copy Share Image
I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Who could think that children from the pockets of Himalaya sing folklore from Scotland and vice versa? Such an education in the… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
“Nothing in this world is a coincidence. Everything is Hitsuzen. *Hitsuzen meaning inevitability, destiny, or fate, as being the driving force in… — CLAMP Copy Share Image
My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
“So how did it go? I sat on the toilet and ran a hand over my hair. Um... it's still going, I… — Denise Grover Swank Copy Share Image
There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don't realistically work,… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something -… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“myths reflect centuries of oral tradition in non-literate as well as literate peoples – when it comes to the supernatural, there's no… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people… We are a nation rich in rivers. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“Then on the day when Artemis cries, then the ashes come falling down.” — J.U. Scribe Copy Share Image
I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
My own bias in folkloristics is decidedly psychoanalytic. I believe that the vast majority of folklore concerns fantasy, and because of that,… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I am basically a folk singer because I'm coming from a part of the earth where folklore means a lot. The Mediterranean… — Demis Roussos Copy Share Image
