Hans Christian Quotes

#1. Hans and Christian just stare at me, faces grim. All I can think of is how awesome it would be if my name were Andersen.

Cyn Balog

#2. In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.

Karolyn Grimes

#3. The Ugly Duckling The classic story by Hans Christian

Hans Christian Andersen

#4. In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

Francis Ford Coppola

#5. I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?

Maurice Sendak

#6. Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.

Hans Christian Andersen

#7. The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song.

Hans Christian Andersen

#8. Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen

Robyn Carr

#9. While not my personal favorite of the Disney princess films, 'The Little Mermaid' wins hands-down in my book for best Disney adaptation. Little girls waited for more than 150 years for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' to have a happy ending. Walt Disney finally gave it to her.

Alethea Kontis

#10. One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Sandra Cisneros

#11. I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.

Victor Borge

#13. It was the last night that she would
breathe the same air as he, or look out over the deep sea and up into the star-blue heaven. A dreamless,
eternal night awaited her, for she had no soul and had not been able to win one.

Hans Christian Andersen

#14. I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

Michael Morpurgo

#15. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale." - Hans Christian Andersen

Laura Kenyon

#16. Hans Christian Andersen said 'Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.' Maybe he was right, maybe not. Either way, just remember: enchanting as they may be, in fairytales the forests are always dark.

Greg F. Gifune

#17. I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#18. I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.

Aimee Bender

#19. A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.

Hans Christian Andersen

#20. Everyone knew the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about the Sandman and how he brought sweet dreams to sleepers. An early, now-defunct Reve company had even used him as their mascot. But that's all the Sandman had been - a mascot. A little grinning elf holding an hourglass.

Erin Kellison

#21. All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Sandra Cisneros

#22. Have you ever read Hans Christian Andersen's story of The Little Mermaid, Miranda? Have you ever wanted
something so badly that you were willing to suffer the sensation of a thousand blades cutting into your feet?

Vanessa Garden

#23. Life is a faerytale written by God's hand.

Hans Christian Andersen

#24. A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

Roger Moore