You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and… — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck 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
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When you think of Grimm's fairy tales, they are deeply, deeply psychological. They're so powerful, so bloody, and really, really disturbing. Think… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well… — Amanda Seyfried 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
O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
“But before any of the small appliances who may be listening to this tale should begin to think that they might do… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch… — William James Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
