Children Quote by Philip Sidney

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

— William Shakespeare

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

— Charlotte Mason

“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

Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.

— Anonymous

“The children were fond of stories, of hero soldiers and buccaneer bounties as muttered by the village elders; but they were especially fond of…

— E. K. Cross

“Generally speaking, all true children's stories make promises to their readers. Here you are, they say, unhandy and short, and there is a big…

— John Goldthwaite

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

“For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic…

— Juliet Marillier

But thou, O King, I bid remember me, unwept, unburied, Heap up mine arms, be tombby sea-bord, and inscribed: A man of no fortune,…

— Ezra Pound

“These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the tales that…

— John Connolly

“Lord, thy children are jaded, and their ears go flat with sound. Marveling in the thunder rumbling of thy voice no longer - they…

— Sylvia Plath

“To the secular arm, therefore, be delivered any and every book which, catering for the youngsters, throttles the life of the old folktales with…

— Edward Clodd