Quotes About Storybooks

#1. What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked.
And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them."
I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#2. I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

Ann Romney

#3. I believe actual violence scars children much more than violence in storybooks.

Robert Paul Weston

#4. He heard the sob she tried to swallow back and thought unhappily that if all the storybooks were right, that there was nobility to be found in adversity and character to be built in tribulation, then he was doing a piss-poor job of both finding and building.

Anonymous

#5. I wanted to be in love like in the storybooks and songs and ballads. Love that hits you like a lightning bolt. And I'm sorry, because yeah, I get that you think I'm ridiculous. I get that you think I'm hilarious. I know, I get that you're mocking me. I get how stupid I am, but at least I know.

Holly Black

#6. I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

Patty Duke

#7. For a sweeter kiss had never been bestowed upon a girl. Not in storybooks or real life.
Not in heaven or hell.

Gwen Hayes

#8. I know you mean well, but you have to remember that things don't always work out like they do in your storybooks.

Melissa Hill

#9. I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal
stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.

Sarah Jio

#10. Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princessly - this wasn't technically a word, but she felt there should be equity in adjectives if not in life.

Thomm Quackenbush

#11. Why couldn't life be like storybooks? Jethro sighed, hugging me hard.

Pepper Winters

#12. Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

Jesse Williams

#13. All my life I knew I would have a big business. That's what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.

Paul Orfalea

#14. There are people.
There are stories.
The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.
Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.

Alan Moore

#15. Life, it's a long road but a short ride.

Paul Carafotes

#16. I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.

Albert Finney

#17. I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

Chris Jericho

#18. I am fascinated by air. If you remove the air from the sky, all the birds would fall to the ground. And all the planes, too.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#19. Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable.

Russell Howard

#20. We are Bears, We are Not Suppose too be Afraid of the Dark & Dangerous Woods.

Migdalia Torres

#21. America is the only country in the world where you can burn the flag but can't tear the tag off the mattress.

Jackie Mason

#22. I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Don DeLillo

#23. I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole