Airy Quote by Charles Dickens

“The dreams of childhood—its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed-in once, so good…

— Charles Dickens

“If you listen to the fables in your childhood, that is great; if you listen to the fables when you grow up, that is…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in…

— L.R. Knost

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.…

— Hypatia

“Childhood is both a chronological stage and a mental construct, an existential fact and a locus of desire, a mythological country continuously mapped by…

— Elizabeth Goodenough

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy…

— Jean Cocteau

“Story is one of the most powerful ways we pattern our world and discover its meaningfulness. It goes beyond mere embellishment of a spiritual…

— Sarah Arthur

“Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“A BOAT beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July — Children three that nestle near, Eager eye and willing…

— Lewis Carroll

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might…

— Michael Chabon

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh…

— Eugene Ionesco

“The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and fears at…

— Keith Donohue