Animals Quote by Diane Ackerman

As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but…

— John Burnside

My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The…

— Lisa Jewell

“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous…

— Anthony Esolen

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories…

— L. Frank Baum

Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess…

— Delia Sherman

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of…

— Walter Scott

“The old stories must be learned anew, studied again within the context of a world at odds with itself and only able to be…

— Michael Meade

“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals…

— Matthew Scully

“Magicians scorned talking to animals; animal thoughts weren't nearly orderly enough to suit magicians, and were always full of large untidy preoccupations, like sex…

— Robin McKinley

“Fairy tales for adult readers remained popular throughout Europe well into the 19th century — particularly in Germany, where the Brothers Grimm published their…

— Terri Windling

When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression,…

— Kate Bernheimer

“Which story do you want to hear my child?"he picked him up and made him sit on his lap. "Tell us the story of…

— Chitralekha Paul