Free fairy sayings, quotes and quotations
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
~fairy sayings by W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
~inspirational sayings about History quotes by Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
~fairy quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
~famous quotes about Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
~fairy sayings by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 2 March 1861
Men say that in this midnight hour,The disembodièd have power,To wander as it liketh them,By wizard oak and fairy stream.
~fairy sayings by William Motherwell
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
~inspirational sayings about Reality quotes by Neil Gaiman, Books of Magic III
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn.
~fairy quotes by W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
~famous quotes about Curiosity by Eleanor Roosevelt
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
~fairy sayings by Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
~good sayings about Teachers by The Talmud
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
~fairy quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith
Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?
~motivational quotes about Vegetarianism sayings by Plutarch
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
~fairy sayings by David Carradine
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
~fairy sayings by Author Unknown
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
~good sayings about Labor by Arnold Glasow
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
~fairy quotes by Babatunde Olatunji
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
~motivational quotes about Attitude sayings by Alfred Hitchcock
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
~fairy sayings by Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
~fairy sayings by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
~good sayings about Love by John Milton
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.
~fairy quotes by George Balanchine
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny
~motivational quotes about Cute sayings by Jack Handey
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
~fairy sayings by Mark Twain, Autobiography, 1924
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
~fairy sayings by Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are three religious truths: 1) Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2) Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. 3) Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters.
~good sayings about Religion by Author Unknown
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone.
~fairy quotes by William Blake
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
~motivational quotes about Kindness sayings by Nelson Henderson
One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.
~fairy sayings by Glenn T. Seaborg, Atomic Energy Commission chairman, speech, Argonne National Laboratory, 1969
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