Folklore Quotes
Collection of top 50 famous quotes about Folklore
Folklore Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Folklore quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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
Some of my best friends are books.
— A. Louise Robertson
I learned there were lots of realities in the world.
— Haruki Murakami
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
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 dropsof 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
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
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
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
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
Hmm," she said. "'Curiouser and curiouser,' to quote Alice.
— Deborah Blake
Careful, even now, not to thank the wights, she added, You have all been most kind.
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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
The Tree of Folklore has no objection whatever to creative carpenters.
— Terry Pratchett