Top 24 Traditional Tales Quotes
#1. There are moments of the most crazy all-encompassing joy. What a phenonenally beautiful kid. A funny, dear child. Kind and open and loving.
Elisa Albert
#2. I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
W.G. Sebald
#4. The feast was seen everywhere and in everything. Some women in semi-dresses were busy doing many things at once. Domestic animals were crying their last, with knives on their throats. They too were celebrating the feast in their own ways.Pg.93
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#5. What he had remembered was to tuck among his changes of clothes one of Regan's framed photographs of the four of them from a few summers back, at Lake Winnipesaukee. He set it up on the nightstand, as if he might swim down into the past, where nothing could go wrong.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#6. Aspen had shifted to fill a desperate place in my life. Not my boyfriend, not my friend, but my family.
Kiera Cass
#7. Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.
Nicole Trunfio
#8. Looks good on paper + Tony Scott = run for the hills.
Vern
#9. Not the confidence that we know exactly what to do at all times but the confidence that, together, we will figure it out.
Ed Catmull
#10. Grandma; it was to grandma I truly wanted to have returned, but she was no more. I could only remember the day she died. The tears mother shed on me, as if I was going to face a more difficult world than any other member of our family. Pg.100
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#11. If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.
Anita Bryant
#12. A traditionalist's values are gleaned from all that is good in the past.
Fennel Hudson
#13. The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you are in the power-field of someone whose magnetism is far more powerful than any other kind of temptation, it is impossible to reach. That is the meaning of disciplehood.
Rajneesh
#14. Twenty good friends cannot live together in twenty good years". We were more than twenty who left the school and the simple statement was beginning to echo hard in my ear, as if grandma actually had that particular day in mind. Pg.100
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#15. As such, there is no one-size-fits-all approach that anyone can offer you. The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.
Clayton M Christensen
#16. The Dreamer awakes
The shadow goes by
The tale I have told you,
That tale is a lie.
But listen to me,
Bright maiden, proud youth
The tale is a lie;
What it tells is the truth.
Traditional Folktale Ending
#17. Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the story. This is one she's called mother willow tree, it's beautiful
Mike Harding
#18. (The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)
Jane Jacobs
#19. It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point.
Isobelle Carmody
#20. My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I nourish myself with old stories, and then create my own tales.
Michel Ocelot
#21. And who should have the money, indeed, if not your wives? They have everything to do with the money. What idea have you, but to waste it!"
"Women waste nothing
they couldn't if they tried," said Aaron Sisson.
D.H. Lawrence
#22. Tell me my little children, what crime has this lizard committed that it must die this evening?" There was silence. In raising my head like a joke, I tried to laugh. That was the same time I realized that grandma was dead serious with us.Pg.26
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#24. Why can't you give me a straight answer?"
"Why can't you ride me like a pony?" He scowled straight back at her, unrepentant. "Don't pretty girls like ponies? I thought they did.
Kylie Scott