Quotes About Mother Goose

#1. Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

Phil Ochs

#2. Whatever evil might come upon us, because we all came about out of love and care and the Bible and Mother Goose. What can stand against that?

Richard Kennedy

#3. I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Clarence Darrow

#4. Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes.

Elvis Presley

#5. Jack and Jill went up that hill, for a supposed pail of water," Mother Goose said. "Jack fell down, broke his crown, 'cause Jill pushed him-but no one caught her.

Chris Colfer

#6. Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.

Neil Young

#7. If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at birth so that Jack in the Beanstalk were in the bible, do you think any child would notice?

Bill Maher

#8. I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Clarence Darrow

#9. Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#10. Mother Goose!
I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when others make them, and in particular, I don't give a frog's fundament for them when they come from an adult.

Alan Bradley

#11. Poor Miss Binney, dressed like Mother Goose, now had the responsibility of sixty-eight boys and girls.

Beverly Cleary

#12. Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?

Sylvia Plath

#13. I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Clarence Darrow

#14. I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

Rebecca Makkai

#15. I came across Mother Goose, so I turned her loose, she was screaming.

Jethro Tull

#16. When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.

Grace Paley

#17. Always have a plan B and a friend with bail, and you're guaranteed to never fail," Mother Goose said and took another drink. "That's my motto.

Chris Colfer

#18. The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!

Christopher Knight

#19. I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!

Dolly Parton

#20. Mother Goose chuckled to herself. "Jack is nimble, Jack is quick - but Jack can be such a - " She stopped herself from finishing the thought, perhaps remembering she was talking to thirteen-year-olds. "I think I've had enough bubbly for one night. It's time for bed anyway.

Chris Colfer

#21. I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.

Eileen Myles

#22. But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

Shannyn Sossamon

#23. Around, around the sun we go:
The moon goes round the earth.
We do not die of death:
We die of vertigo.

Archibald MacLeish

#24. On the drive up here, I saw a goose," he says. "A Canada goose. Fred told me they shit something horrible. They migrate between the north and the south, don't they? Like seniors.

Brian Francis

#25. I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.

Leo Tolstoy

#26. For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none.
If there be one, try and find it;
If there be none, never mind it.

Mother Goose Rhymes

#27. Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

Tom Kristensen

#28. That's the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

Robin Chase

#29. When you stop doing what insults your Soul, your Journey accelerates and your Life beings to fill with joy.

Sue Fitzmaurice