What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.
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Related The fireplace is warm nook Penina Mezei’s house in fairy tale in which the "fairy-tale-in Jukebox"... PENINA MEZEI Myths, fables and fairy tales are parables of what could never ever happen except in real life. DAVID L. HATTON I don't know these stories as well as they know me, I've discovered. JOAN GOULD A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music GEORG TRAKL Enchanted castle corridors are the right place to "get in" research on fairy tales - it's a fairy ta... PENINA MEZEI I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: A... BEVERLY CLEARY A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales. ERALDO BANOVAC I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale mak... REGINA DOMAN I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fair... NATALIE BABBITT When they first wrote the fairy tales about love people lived to 30, in the modern world maybe we ne... CARL WHITE Ava's father believed that myths and fairy tales - like dreams - opened a window into the unconsciou... KATE FORSYTH We thought she'd save him. We all hoped so much that she'd save him because it would have been like ... FREDRIK BACKMAN Even in the wood, there was a right road and a wrong one. All the most terrifying fairy tales inevit... ROBERT DUNBAR I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. BEVERLY CLEARY The fairy tale of film—created with the magic of animation—is the modern equivalent of the great... WALT DISNEY COMPANY Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale. DEJAN STOJANOVIC Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy t... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Myths are different than fairy tales or legends. Legends are stories based in history and are more o... SETH ADAM SMITH The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor... WALTER BENJAMIN Tolkien reintroduced the world of fairy tale to a new audience. It was a very traditional image of f... TOM SHIPPEY We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One ... SUSAN CAIN The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the ... ERIK CHRISTIAN HAUGAARD And the old woman who had been the prince’s nurse became nurse to the prince’s children — at l... ANDREW LANG And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still. ANDREW LANG I've spent my life wondering when I would earn the right to be a man again. Despite the undeserved g... JACK HECKEL Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not t... KATE FORSYTH They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of meta... JANE YOLEN Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively... TERRI WINDLING Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him,... ERIN MCCARTHY Children are more able to objectively synthesize a story involving vampires, monsters, or dragons du... JOSEPH ABBRUSCATO I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to ch... MIKE MYERS The lamb baa-ed vigorously as Mary dragged it into the manicure room, and Zel winced. She really sho... SARAH BETH DURST If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. DANIELLE STEEL I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard... AMY TAN The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. GEORGE LLOYD Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, ... MARGARET ATWOOD It's an invention, a fairy tale devoid of any sense, like all the legends in which good spirits and ... ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians. DEJAN STOJANOVIC I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see,... CHARLES DE LINT Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was... TERRI WINDLING The best fairy-tale we can have in this universe is to live on our miraculous planet! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white. PARIS HILTON During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the... LAO SHE I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of man... ROBERT JORDAN Start with familiar fairy tales or Bible stories or old folk tales or ancient myths and legends. You... PRISCILLA HOWE Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but th... G.K. CHESTERTON ah, life— the thing that happens to us while we’re off somewhere else AMANDA LOVELACE If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy ... G.K. CHESTERTON Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy ... G. K. CHESTERTON Am I the same cold, ragged damp Sara? And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were... FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT She moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest—and she tells us stories, such storie... MEAGAN SPOONER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We live in the fairy forest of huge trees which is on the other side of the lake, said Farina. MAGDA M. OLCHAWSKA For it is a true fact that faeries, just like people, very often find that a full belly and a good f... C.S. EINFELD We studied many different versions of classic fairy tales from different cultures around the world. ... CINDY WILLIAMS We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for my... CARL GUSTAV JUNG At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. PAULO COELHO All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's ... SANDRA CISNEROS I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white. PARIS HILTON The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something... JOSEPH JACOBS When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are ca... PAUL HENDERSON Never trust the meaning of fairy tales. LOSUNGEN It's just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tal... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, moral... KARA WALKER There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. JOHN MAJOR It's like a fairy tale. . . on crack! HILLARY DEPIANO All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. HELENA BONHAM CARTER When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales ar... PAUL HENDERSON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have ... JACK D. ZIPES Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. GEORGE SANTAYANA Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. GENA SHOWALTER Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. WALTER ULBRICHT Fairy tales and stories of fantasy bridge the gap and inspires the heart and mind wherever religious... ALARIC HUTCHINSON It has a jazzy sound; it's a brighter, more modern fairy tale than a lot of shows we've done. TIM HOLMES Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. ALICE HOFFMAN Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the ... MATTHEW QUICK The fairy-tale continues, it's unbelievable what they did. It's a true miracle, OTTO REHHAGEL Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy. JOHN HOWE There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard ... FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Some things were only possible in fairy tales. And not the kind of fairy tales that Baba Yagas featu... DEBORAH BLAKE It's a huge relief. It's a fairy tale ending, it's everything I could ever ask for. BRANDON LOW I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling ... A. S. BYATT Sometimes a girl just needs a splash of fairy tale in her life. To the girls who no longer believe i... GINA JAMMAL Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. They already know that dragons exist. Fairy Tal... G.K. CHESTERTON. Remember all fairy tales end at some point. MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Aging and the prospect of dying by no means enhance the attractiveness of fictitious comforts to com... JEFFREY TAYLER The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee... JACK KEROUAC That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a h... GENA SHOWALTER What Grimm fairy tale featured apiarian morphing humans? SOLANGE NICOLE What happened at Oklahoma, that's fairy-tale land. They had great talent there already. ED CUNNINGHAM Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling. ANTHONY DOERR The movie is really a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales. It's also an excuse for Terry... MATT DAMON The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales ... MONICA CROWLEY No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or... J.R.R. TOLKIEN
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