Nursery Rhymes Quotes

22 Nursery Rhymes quotes by 22 unique authors

Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American… — Richey Edwards
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be… — Ray Bradbury
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal;… — Bobby McFerrin
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. — Tre Cool
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re… — Mem Fox
On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up… — Sylvia Plath
A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even… — Katherine Catmull
Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head,… — Chris Bohjalian
Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs. — Karisma Kapoor
Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she… — Choi Soo-young
He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction… — Terry Pratchett
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The nursery rhyme ends when a spider comes along and frightens Miss Muffet straight off her tuffet. I have wondered about what kind of lesson… — Sloane Crosley
The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a… — Cassandra Clare
Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old… — Lauren Oliver
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and… — Shannon Hale
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the… — Oliver Sacks
Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you… — Neil Gaiman
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever. — Alan Garner
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because… — James Fenton
I've been out of the loop, really...just singing my baby nursery rhymes. — Pitbull
All the Kings Horses and all the Kings men Couldn't get Humpty Dumpty back in those leotards again. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Who Wrote These Nursery Rhymes Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 22 Nursery Rhymes Quotes as follows: