Bedtime Tales Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Arthur Kornberg

#3. There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

John Dufresne

#4. Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win.

Thomas S. Power

#5. It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through governesses and nannies, and later in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries through mothers, who told bedtime stories.

Jack D. Zipes

#6. No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

Jesse Eisenberg

#7. But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so much sought and cared for, appears in history and biography only in a more or less disfigured condition.

Frederick Niecks

#8. A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories.

Eraldo Banovac

#9. The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact,

Julian Casablancas

#10. Fairy tales are much more than silly bedtime stories," the teacher continued. "The solution to almost every problem imaginable can be found in the outcome of a fairy tale. Fairy tales are life lessons disguised with colorful characters and situations. "'The

Chris Colfer

#11. Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?

Libba Bray

#12. These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

Edwidge Danticat

#13. If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. - Richard Due

Richard Due

#14. Lots of children I know are excited to grow up. So I wonder why this man was so happy to become young again?

Sara Rich

#15. Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.

Rachel Higginson

#16. We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Marco Rubio

#17. Now I lay me down to sleep upon my pillow fluffed up so deep my dreams will take me far away to the land all children play when I wake with that new yawn shortly after the new dawn I'll try to have the best day I can until I return to my dream land

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#18. Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

Paul Auster

#19. A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

Frank Zappa

#20. Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Dolly Parton

#21. Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

Eamon De Valera