Fairy Quotes - page 3

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are. (J. M. Barrie)
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. View quote
Albert Einstein
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. View quote
Dara Ó Briain
It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything. View quote
Maureen Johnson
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying. View quote
Meg Cabot
Remember all fairy tales end at some point. View quote
Melissa de la Cruz
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths. View quote
Natalie Babbitt
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality. View quote
Nelly Sachs
I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl. View quote
Rebecca Wells
My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl. (Sarah Zettel)
Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney. View quote
Susanna Clarke
at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power. View quote
Susan Wiggs
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
The public has become my fairy godmother. View quote
Eartha Kitt
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret. View quote
Brian Selznick
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times. View quote
Diane Setterfield
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. View quote
Gena Showalter
Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light. View quote
John Lennox
I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl. (Amy Adams)
I like that "once upon a time" quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. View quote
Erin Morgenstern
And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from. View quote
Erin Morgenstern
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. View quote
Alice Hoffman
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. View quote
Alice Hoffman