Folklore Quotes: top 50 famous quotes about Folklore

Folklore Quotes & Sayings

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Imagine a perfect world — Bruce McQueen

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. — Andy Hertzfeld

I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands. — James Black

Some of my best friends are books. — A. Louise Robertson

When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over. — Paul Smith

I learned there were lots of realities in the world. — Haruki Murakami

A rich man's soup - and all from a few stones. It seemed like magic! — Marcia Brown

Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore. — Ray Romano

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. — Charles Stross

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts. — Daikichi Irokawa

All it takes, is one leap of faith. — EK Dobbins

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller. — Terri Windling

I am a master of folklore - I should be able to throw folklore fireballs or something. — Michael R. Underwood

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. — Terri Windling

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. — Paul Henderson

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective. — W. Eugene Smith

I'm Liam of Erinthia. I'm here to rescue you ... And You are not Cinderella. You are a tree branch wrapped in a sheet — Christopher Healy

Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don't tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders. — Jim Butcher

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy. — Antonio Gramsci

We thought it was drops
of dew and kissed
cold tears from the crossgrass. — Jonas Hallgrimsson

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living. — Zora Neale Hurston

Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses. — StorySmitten

Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, Polish Customs, Traditions, and Folklore (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1996), p. 259. people — Diane Ackerman

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. — Alan Dundes

Folklore is artistic communication in small groups. — Dan Ben-Amos

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Folklore is always changing and evolving for new audiences. — Tomm Moore

Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore — Brendan Rodgers

The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it. — J. Aleksandr Wootton

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place. — Billy Graham

Then on the day when Artemis cries,
then the ashes come falling down. — J.U. Scribe

Something tells me this isn't going to end well for everyone involved. Someone may get turned into a frog yet." And that was the good news. — Deborah Blake

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore. — Terri Windling

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me. — Margaret Halsey

You're the Baba Yaga?" He gazed at her in disbelief. "But the Baba Yaga is an ugly old crone, and you're, you're... not! — Deborah Blake

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. — Peter Redgrove

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people ... We are a nation rich in rivers. — Charles Kuralt

A folklore study differs from most writing, in that the tale is told in the voice of the individual telling the story, not by the collector. — Karen Jones Gowen

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore. — Holly Black

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom. — Marie Brennan

Broken things can be fixed and healed. Nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean. — Marika McCoola

Naughty children have to be protected. Even if it's just from themselves. — Marika McCoola

Hmm," she said. "'Curiouser and curiouser,' to quote Alice. — Deborah Blake

Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world. — Jane Yolen

Careful, even now, not to thank the wights, she added, You have all been most kind. — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier. — Sarah Zettel

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore. — John Hillaby

Behind every legendary monster, there is an unknown tragedy. — Julie Deshtor

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore. — Eric Kripke

The Tree of Folklore has no objection whatever to creative carpenters. — Terry Pratchett