Hansel Quotes

#1. Stop thinking that nuns are sweet and kind like Maria in The Sound of Music. That's just a movie. Think of the evil old bruja in 'Hansel and Gretal.

Viola Canales

#2. How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (break of contract).

Sloane Crosley

#3. Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.

Sloane Crosley

#4. But I feel very sorry for the poor children, all the same," said the man. The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their step-mother had said to their father. Grethel wept bitter tears, and said to Hansel, "Now all is over with us." "Be quiet, Grethel," said

Jacob Grimm

#5. We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.

Gary Kovacs

#6. We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

Patti Smith

#7. 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Maurice Sendak

#8. I actually cook and eat real food, too.
No roast Hansel, no grilled Gretel ... I promise.
Angela from Angela's Coven #covenbooks

Bruce Jenvey

#9. Dear Father, I already forgave you once. I read all your letters, which fed me crumbs of love and admiration. LIke Hansel and Gretel, I followed their trail to your door. But you have left me again. I have the whole summer ahead of me to re-read your letters, and to try to understand.

Susie Morgenstern

#10. Operation: Hansel & Gretel

Melissa McClone

#11. Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

Owen Wilson

#12. Domenico rolled his eyes. "You keep clinging to details whereas the bottom line is, one move of his ass, and you went after him like fucking Hansel to lick the witch's cunt in the gingerbread house." The

K.A. Merikan

#13. Sometimes, when Bridget was in a particularly melodious mood, Sophie thought about stalking downstairs and pushing her into the oven like the with in 'Hansel and Gretel.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Of course there are mothers,
squeezing their breasts
dry, pawning their bodies,
shedding teeth for their children,
or that's our fond belief.
But remember - Hansel
and Gretel were dumped in the forest
because their parents were starving.

Margaret Atwood

#15. Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar."
"There must not have been a very strict building code ...

Charles M. Schulz

#16. You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

Seamus Heaney

#17. No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.

Lana Parrilla

#18. Like Hansel and Gretel whose trail of breadcrumbs got eaten~ your customer may lose their way once they have left your website and they may never come back.
An email marketing list helps you remind your customers of who you and your business are.

Nina Montgomery

#19. As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of the witch.

Charles Baxter

#20. I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.

Anthony Browne

#21. Hansel and Gretel had breadcrumbs, she had plastic spiders. Worst-case scenario, she could find her way back by following the trail of dead birds that had choked on them.

Jeff Strand

#22. There are few things more pleasurable than a cracking version of Hansel and Gretel and a good scab.

Lyn Gardner

#23. In my opinion, what 'The Evil Dead' is to horror, 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' is to action-fantasy, with these horror elements and a steampunk-y twist.

Derek Mears

#24. Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

Caroline Stevermer

#25. Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the pebbles which shone like newly-coined silver pieces, and showed them the way.

Jacob Grimm

#26. The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking! He sniffed at the air. And I smell delicious!

Adam Gidwitz

#27. You see, Hansel and Gretel don't just show up at the end of this story.
They show up.
And then they get their heads cut off.
Just thought you'd like to know.

Adam Gidwitz

#28. The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Tim Hansel

#29. Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges us to change and grow, and then gives us the power to pull it off.

Tim Hansel

#30. All of our theology must eventually become biography.

Tim Hansel

#31. There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

Tim Hansel

#32. It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.

Tim Hansel

#33. Necessity is the author of change.

Tim Hansel

#34. Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

Tim Hansel

#35. I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Tim Hansel

#36. Learning patience takes a lot of patience!

Tim Hansel

#37. Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.

Tim Hansel

#38. It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

Tim Hansel

#39. Life is really fun, if only we gave it a chance.

Tim Hansel

#40. One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work in the most difficult of circumstances.

Tim Hansel

#41. Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human

Tim Hansel

#42. Our theology must become biography.

Tim Hansel