(73 quotes found)
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis
“If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.”
Danielle Steel
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Douglas Adams
“Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies,' there's a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”
James Matthew Barrie
“Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!”
“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
John Lennon
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in”
Rachel Carson
“There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.”
Rose Fyleman
“The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible”
Washington Irving
“Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
William Butler Yeats