About Quote by Vincent Schiavelli

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was…

— Jesse L. Martin

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.

— Peter Stormare

Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth,…

— Karl Rove

My grandparents would tell me stories about going down to the Villa even before every stand had been built; back in the day when…

— Ben Francis

The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think…

— Joseph Jacobs

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were…

— David Alan Grier

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

— James Gray

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

— Hedda Hopper

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

— Kate Forsyth

Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.

— Shweta Basu Prasad