Fairy Quotes
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If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.
Albert Einstein -
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen
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I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.
Taylor Swift -
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.
Dolly Parton -
I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.
RaeLynn -
To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.
J. B. Morton -
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee -
My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me into bed so vigorously that I never felt anything less than comforted, and then afterwards, she would sit on a cane basket box next to my bed and read Hans Christian Andersen to me.
Emilia Wickstead
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People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
Kate Bernheimer -
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
Fareed Zakaria -
I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
Jack Zipes -
The public has become my fairy godmother.
Eartha Kitt -
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
William Wordsworth -
Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.
Mark Hanna
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Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.
William Irwin Thompson -
Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.
Dara O Briain -
I would love to be an Avenger or Wonder Woman. Pretty much any woman who can kick ass and take names, I am down! I have also always wanted to be a sultry mermaid or a bad ass fairy.
Katrina Law -
God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
William Shakespeare -
The dead have need of fairy tales too.
Zbigniew Herbert -
My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.
Meredith Brooks
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It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.
David Shannon -
Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.
Angelina Jolie