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Fairy Quotes by Jack Zipes
- The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to…
- Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.
- Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit…
More Fairy Quotes
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes.… — Amy Adams
- Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of… — Douglas Adams
- Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands! — James M. Barrie
- To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children… — Annie Besant
- It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness… — William Blake
- I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy,… — Julie Burchill