Tale Quotes - page 2

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. (Laurence Housman)
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! View quote
William Falconer
Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! -Thus the tale ended. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true. View quote
Ai Weiwei
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of history and a sanction of evidence), then we are in for trouble - as critics properly nail the particular weakness, and then assume that the whole theory must be in danger if supporters choose such a fatuous case as a primary illustration. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. View quote
Washington Irving
Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,A tale of folly and of wasted life,Hope against hope, the bitter dregs of strife,Ending, where all things end, in death at last. View quote
William Morris
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. View quote
Karen Blixen
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. View quote
Samuel Johnson
[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release. (Gloria Estefan)
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing. View quote
Maya Angelou
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. View quote
Joseph Addison
This is a Tale about a tail - a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin. View quote
Beatrix Potter
That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning. View quote
Eleanor Farjeon
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. View quote
Azar Nafisi
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. View quote
Adrienne Rich
Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.” Another fairy tale to give men hope. The old religions have been discredited - although some refuse to face even that fact - so new ones must be invented.”. View quote
Philip José Farmer
With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. View quote
Philip Sidney
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession. (Anthony Trollope)
Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. View quote
John Gay
For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true. View quote
William Shenstone
And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries. View quote
David Hume