Quotes About Folktales

#1. Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.

David Roediger

#2. In these evenings he sat by our beds weaving folktales like vivid little scarves.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#3. Folktales are real.

Italo Calvino

#4. To a degree that would be astonishing in the United States, Vietnamese in all walks of life could recite long passages from poems, recount folktales and legends, and discuss novels thirty years old as if the characters lived next door.

Neil L. Jamieson

#5. Now that the book is finished, I know that this was not a hallucination, a sort of professional malady, but the confirmation of something I already suspected - folktales are real.

Italo Calvino

#6. They spring from deep within us, these nightmares, these folktales. They speak of our deepest needs, the ones we have all been taught since childhood never to put into words, because dreams reveal our other face, the one we keep hidden, the Hyde to mankind's collective Jekyll.

Robert Dunbar

#7. But this is a story,
and in a story
there is always someone
beautiful enough.
- 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

Catherynne M Valente

#8. The first volume of Irish folktales was Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, published in 1825 by Thomas Croker from Cork.

Ryan Hackney

#9. 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?'

Sarah J. Maas

#10. History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

Jane Hirshfield

#11. In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection. Cotman seizes the stories of tired tradition and galvanizes them, setting them to dance for us in wonderful, new interpretations.

Cat Rambo

#12. Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc.

Brian Froud

#13. I'm a dude who likes to create music with good feeling. I live like a chameleon through music. It all depends on what the beat tells me to do; that's why you're always gonna get passionate hooks, because I'm feeling the beats and the emotion behind the drums and melodies.

Kid Cudi

#14. Everybody knew that Theodore Dinkins was dead. But Theodore Dinkins sat on the graveyard fence and said that he was not; and grew angry if contradicted.

John Bennett

#15. Personally, I am obsessed with my mom, and I would do literally anything for her.

Alexa Von Tobel

#16. I love children. Eating them, that is.

Keith McGowan

#17. You're down now, Jordan, but only for awhile. I think God is giving you a chance to really look at your life and decide just how you want to live it.
That's right, said Kara. You can keep on living it for yourself or invite God to take over.

Melody Carlson

#18. To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

Shane Claiborne

#19. In Sussex, if it's not the Devil that makes an appearance, then it's likely to be a dragon.

Michael O'Leary

#20. The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.

Joseph Campbell

#21. Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered.

Lois Lowry

#22. You know you've found love when they have: a smile that melts you, an innocence that soothes, a presences that glows and a trust in them that grows. - For Lydia

Kieran Harper

#23. A beverage of leisure is a serious business," Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. "There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.

Jeff Phillips

#24. The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world. And the closer you will be to your Soulmate.

Paulo Coelho

#25. Listen,
listen with your eyes,
and your lips.
Listen with your skin,
and your blood.
Can you hear us,
at the edges?

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#26. Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.

Thomas G. Bandy

#27. The Tao that can be described is not the enduring and unchanging Tao.

Lao-Tzu

#28. You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.

Nicolas Roeg

#29. Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.

W.B.Yeats

#30. Crook your finger;
they'll come closer.
Pull the covers tighter to your chin;
in beside you they'll creep.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#31. Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

#32. Clearing away the excess whittles life down to its bare essence, revealing purity of heart, integrity of character and inspiration of purpose,

Kathleen Ann Harper

#33. There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven.

Gerald Hausman

#34. It's way too long and I gave up on it. Abandoning forever an innocent child to a hostile and unforgiving land. Sometimes I still hear him crying late at night. He sounds exactly like a malfunctioning air conditioner.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#35. I hope I would leave a legacy of joy -a legacy of real compassion,

Rich Mullins