Quotes About Once Upon A Time

#1. I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.

Claire Hennessy

#2. Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.

Bill Shorten

#3. If someone seems to have changed from one session to another, make sure you haven't changed instead. A warning from his mother, once upon a time, delivered as if she'd upended a box of spy-advice fortune cookies and chosen one at random.

Jeff VanderMeer

#4. That's the ideal meeting ... once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

Helen Oyeyemi

#5. Bakersville was never going to be the same. She'd been to other small towns where the residents all thought serial killers looked like monsters, that no member of their community could hide such dark desires. Once upon a time, she'd lived in one.
And the monster there had ripped her life apart.

Elizabeth Heiter

#6. Once upon a time she had felt trapped inside her story with its familiar characters and predictable plot. Now she felt locked out of it.

Roderick Townley

#7. Once upon a time, there had been a seventeen-year-old assassin who had never let anyone get closer to her. Then, with the turning of a page, her story changed forever.

Alyson Serena Stone

#8. We enter the world of the story, delighted to go through that reliable and recognizable portal of promise, the magical words "Once upon a time.

Paula Munier

#9. Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time ... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

Tim Reid

#10. Once upon a time, something terrifying lived in the woods. Or perhaps the woods were terrifying. Or perhaps the whole world is poisoned with wickedness and lies, and it's best to learn that now.
No, Fyrian, darling. I don't believe that last bit either.

Kelly Barnhill

#11. Once upon a time a lot of fairies lived in Mona.

N.a.

#12. Once upon a time, there was a safe, private place to take your controversial stand for Jesus. No more. If you are going to stand, you will be shot at - either figuratively or literally.

John Piper

#13. Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

Nathan Filer

#14. 'Once Upon A Time In America' is one of the cleverest films of all time, because you can get out of it whatever you want to get out of it.

Ray Winstone

#15. Once upon a time, I could sing three hours. Now, when you see me say 'I'm done,' I'm done; ain't nothing left till the next night.

Bobby Womack

#16. Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

Gertrude Stein

#17. Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her.

R. J. Anderson

#18. Once upon a time, Caleb held me captive in the dark, now he used it to seduce me.

C.J. Roberts

#19. Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.

Zell Miller

#20. Once upon a time, I would have said we choose our paths at random: this happened, then that, hence the other. Now I know better. There are forces.

Stephen King

#21. Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.

Lorraine Hansberry

#22. What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

Laura Busche

#23. I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.

Bill Murray

#24. She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she forgot how to fly

Nikki Rowe

#25. Once upon a time, people thought earth was flat-shaped.
Now I'm ready to perceive universe won't be as we think.

Toba Beta

#26. Once upon a time," Gemma began, the older two girls whispering the opening with her, "which is all times and no times but not the very best of times,there was a castle. And in it lived a king who wanted nothing more in the world than a child.

Jane Yolen

#27. When a fairy tale ends a new one starts. Close your eyes and say 'once upon a time' with me; who knows we may catch the beginning of a fairy tale which will bless us with a happy ending."
By T. Afsin Ilgar - Ted's Tale

T. Afsin Ilgar

#28. Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.

Deborah Harkness

#29. M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priesthood meant a call from the bishop, not necessarily a call from God. And I heard the Bishop of Rome himself call you to be that which you have now become by ordination and consecration.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#30. Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

Jimmy Buffett

#31. India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

Narendra Modi

#32. While 'Once upon a time' may be a great way to start a story, 'Here in the moment' is the best way to live one.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#33. Once upon a time in a basement library nook,
I stumbled upon my first favorite book.
Pulled into adventure as the pages unfurled,
I found treasures greater than gold or pearls.

Tyrean Martinson

#34. Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

Philip Pullman

#35. But he was Kade's God, and once upon a time, Samuel, Danyel, and even Lucifer's. They believed in him, so I guess I should too.

Cameo Renae

#36. Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes ... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#37. Once upon a time, out of nowhere a car appeared and headed straight for Mal Bennett. 'Long time, no see,' the engine roared, and the clanging muffler agreed. The car embraced Mal, really soul-kissed him, then said 'Farewell,' tossing him back onto his beloved, sacred lawn.

Henry H. Roth

#38. Once upon a time, a man came from the sky and killed my wife. Beside him now, I walk on a mountain that floats over our world.

Pierce Brown

#39. These were the places that Ama described in her stories, places where all the children of the tribe would be princes and princesses and their stomachs always full. It was a once-upon-a-time world that used to be. In

Mary E. Pearson

#40. She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time."
An incantation.

Jennifer McMahon

#41. Rain's pouring and it's too cold.
All people bored and I even accord
What to do but spell a tale told:
So once upon a time a land in the shore...

Ana Claudia Antunes

#42. Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Joshua Foer

#43. Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is really
the only proper way to begin a story--the only way that really
smacks of romance and fairyland--

L.M. Montgomery

#44. Once upon a time...long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us.

Richard Flanagan

#45. Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.

Laini Taylor

#46. In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

Anita Loos

#47. This was about two sides warring for love.
She and Tedros fighting for Good. Sophie and the School Master fighting for Evil.
Once upon a time, she and her best friend tried to find a happy ending together. Now only one of them could come out alive.

Soman Chainani

#48. Once upon a time, we were cynics facing the world alone. Our story changed into two warrior cynics facing the world together.
Now, we own the happily ever after and we refuse to let that bitch go.

Monica Murphy

#49. Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.

Laozi

#50. Her dark eyes were like twin entrances to two deep caves. Nothing lived in those caves. Maybe something had, once upon a time. There were piles of picked bones back in there, some scribbling on the walls, and some grey ash where the fires had been.

John D. MacDonald

#51. Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.

Ann Marlowe

#52. Once upon a time! What kind of talk is that?

Ray Bradbury

#53. Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

Charles Fourier

#54. Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time ... ' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

Victoria Aveyard

#55. Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. Once upon a time there was a little boy who lived with monsters, and the monsters swore that they would never hurt him, because even monsters dream of living happily ever after.

Seanan McGuire

#57. We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.'
Precisely,' said a passing bush.

Terry Pratchett

#58. Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.

Maggie Stiefvater

#59. Once upon a time, I tried to have dinner with my best friend, and the apocalypse happened.

Chloe Neill

#60. Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were
Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

Beatrix Potter

#61. Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean, or beautiful anything, remember this and appreciate them well!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#62. When Chanel peeped into James' eyes as he yelled obscenities at her, she saw power; a commander. She saw someone who was that nigga once upon a time.

Nako

#63. Tell me what to do. Tell me what I need to do to get you back... I stood there, gaping at him for a moment. Once upon a time I'd dreamt of those words coming from his mouth. Once upon a time I craved them. I felt that I needed them, but that time passed.

Claire Contreras

#64. I'm letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn't work well.

Nikki Gil

#65. On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.

Lana Parrilla

#66. Generally speaking, all true children's stories make promises to their readers. Here you are, they say, unhandy and short, and there is a big world that one day will be yours. Listen to how it happened for Cinderella once upon a time, and Jack with his beanstalk, and Aladdin with his lamp.

John Goldthwaite

#67. Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

Kenneth R. Miller

#68. Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Stop this. It's undignified.

N.K. Jemisin

#69. Ah yes, jobs. Once upon a time, souls were traded for immortality or riches. Now we are bought and sold with the promise of jobs. The human spirit is devalued currency. How the devil must be laughing.

Jamie Delano

#70. Once upon a time, a girl went to see a monster menagerie where all the exhibits were dead.

Laini Taylor

#71. Rush of pine scent (once upon a time),
the unlicensed conviction
there ought to be another way
of saying
this.

Paul Celan

#72. Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant past, very weird people were effectively isolated from all the other very weird people.

But today, the internet makes it possible for very weird people from anywhere on the planet to get on the internet and talk to one another.

Caliban Darklock

#73. Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand categorically denies that such a majority is an independent factor of any importance.

Alexander Kotov

#74. On the other hand I won't conceal the fact from anyone that once upon a time a little something happened to me. I saw a little something. But never except just that once.

Halldor Laxness

#75. Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.

Rachel Cohn

#76. Once upon a time there was a pair of pants.

Ann Brashares

#77. Nothing at all would be a step up from my conversations with Anna. God, she's dull! You get the feeling that she probably had something to say for herself once upon a time, but now everything is about the child: Is she warm enough? Is she too warm? How much milk did she take?

Paula Hawkins

#78. Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

Tom Ford

#79. Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four hours long, but it's so well done.

Erik Estrada

#80. Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don't have a price tag.

Bear Grylls

#81. Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need for a friend.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#82. Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

Carl Jung

#83. I looked around and it was like I was seeing everything frozen into a still photograph, like I was seeing my whole life but in one of those shots you look and later think, Yeah, that's what it was like, once upon a time. Once upon a time ago.

Anna Quindlen

#84. Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

Don DeLillo

#85. Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be
a man.

Edward Abbey

#86. The truth is, however, that there is nothing very "normal" about nature. Once upon a time there were no flowers at all.

Loren Eiseley

#87. The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

Kate DiCamillo

#88. Once upon a time, there was a story. But no one to tell it.

A.D.Y. Howle

#89. Once upon a time I saved Livvie. She's been saving me ever since.

C.J. Roberts

#90. Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

Charles Perrault

#91. Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

Adam Gidwitz

#92. So here is my story, may it bring
Some smiles and a tear or so,
It happened once upon a time,
Far away, and long ago,
Outside the night wind keens and wails,
Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Brian Jacques

#93. Seeing him was a sucker punch to the gut. Once upon a time he'd loved her. And then when he'd stopped, it wasn't really his fault.

Sarina Bowen

#94. ... the facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget they had once upon a time been juicy with sap and alive in the sun.

Andre Gide

#95. Once upon a time there was a girl named Debbie Jacobs and a boy named Teddy Dennis.

Rick Remender

#96. Once upon a time we were all born,
popped out like jelly rolls
forgetting our fishdom,
the pleasuring seas,
the country of comfort,
spanked into the oxygens of death ...

Anne Sexton

#97. I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

Erin Morgenstern

#98. Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out there who kept lifting her dress up over her head. Now that was living. Just lift your dress if you wanted to get down and don't worry what anyone thought.

Erin McCarthy

#99. I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time ...

Jeff Probst

#100. Once upon a time, I had a grasp of concepts like "motivation" and "investment" and "progress." I am not even sure now that those are words.

Ryan Parmenter