Fairy Stories Quotes

Fairy Stories Quote of the day

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Fairy tales are more than true.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

[Angels] aid us in our personal mission. We have to learn to listen, for if we block the angels out, they become only the fairy beings of dreams and pleasant stories.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when I listened to fairy stories and imagined what they looked like and what those worlds were like.

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories