Quotes About Nursery Rhymes

#1. I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

Tre Cool

#2. It is nothing, Marie-Laure. Come now." Marie-Laure backs out. Below her, her great-uncle whispers nursery rhymes to himself. "I can sit with him for a bit, Madame. Maybe we could read some more of our

Anthony Doerr

#3. New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy's nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and hurned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o-clock schollar blow off his legs and then watch him holler ...

Dalton Trumbo

#4. Yes, I know.
Death sits with his key in my lock.
Not one day is taken for granted.
Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

Anne Sexton

#5. Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.

James Fenton

#6. Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.

Karisma Kapoor

#7. Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they're four years old, they're usually among the best readers by the time they're eight.

Mem Fox

#8. Alice had this magical look about her, like she would be at home in front of a hearth, wrapped in a large quilt, telling nursery rhymes to sweet-faced forest critters.

Alexandra Bracken

#9. My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.

Alan Garner

#10. If there's no feast for this appetite
No reason in nursery rhymes
Why can't I shake this great and glorious lie?
And if there's no dawn beyond this dark
No secret stair to climb
Where did I learn the song that shakes the sky?

Jeffrey Overstreet

#11. I don't want the guy who wanted the swan. I want the guy who wanted the duckling."
A long moment of silence passes.
Then: "Chloe, I don't know what that means."
She stomps her foot. "Seriously? Do mothers not read nursery rhymes to their sons?

Lauren Layne

#12. You might want to write 'War and Peace,' but that might not be who you are. You might be better off with nursery rhymes.

Romesh Gunesekera

#13. Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are.

Rudy Vallee

#14. Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she watches is the cartoon channel.

Choi Soo-young

#15. Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. Many adults have lost this feeling and, if they read verse at all, demand a far cruder music than that which they once appreciated.

Louis MacNeice

#16. Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.

Richey Edwards

#17. Rock-a-bye Baby
In the tree top
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks
The cradle will fall
And Mama will catch you
Cradle and all!

Kristen McKee

#18. Was he leaving home, or going home?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#19. Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

Jane Smiley

#20. I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

G.K. Chesterton

#21. Do me the kindness of at least scraping me from the bottom of your shoes.

Kels Adeline Sapp

#22. You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

KaDee Strickland

#23. Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life!

Kristen McKee

#24. They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm
That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em.
But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copacetic
Using nursery terms, at least not poetic ...

Kool Keith

#25. However convenient this dwelling, we cannot remain here.

Walt Whitman

#26. They've made her something else now.

Damien Angelica Walters

#27. This little piggy went to Hades
This little piggy stayed home
This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh
This little piggy violated virgins
And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top

Neil Gaiman

#28. Make no mistake, you would prefer to work for someone who is going to put their arm around you at times and lift you.

Stuart Pearce

#29. You may need help or information from some nongovernmental organization, and the local person heading that NGO may be some West Coast, liberal-educated, no-leg-shaving, Birkenstock-wearing female uniform-hater. And you gotta deal with her.

Dick Couch

#30. If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?

Wakas Mir

#31. I remembered a tapa my grandmother used to recite: 'No Pashtun leaves his land of his own sweet will, Either he leaves from poverty or he leaves for love

Malala Yousafzai

#32. Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her dear dog a bone.
Though the cupboard was bare,
When she focused elsewhere
Her heart overflowed with fun!

Kristen McKee

#33. And tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me ...

Sarah Kane