Once Upon A Time Quotes

Once Upon A Time Quotes by James Joyce, Kate DiCamillo, Gertrude Stein, John D. Barrow, Seamus Heaney, Vera Nazarian and many others.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
James Joyce
The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
Kate DiCamillo
Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.
Gertrude Stein
There was no “before” the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
John D. Barrow
I’ve nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.
Seamus Heaney
Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.
Vera Nazarian
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you’re saying, ‘Once upon a time.’ That’s what writing is all about.
Mary Higgins Clark
One hundred years ago, if someone said, ‘damn,’ people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once upon a time when a secret was revealed, people paid an enormous amount of attention to it.
Paul Levinson
Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!
Adam Gidwitz
There’s a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, ‘On this site, you are a man; on the other side, you are a woman.’ It’s time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.
Kate Bornstein
Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens. Your own wondrous story has already begun. Your “once upon a time” is now.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
People think that children don’t know anything. It’s enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
Muriel Barbery
Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.
John Connolly
Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it’s the journey between that makes the story worth telling.
Chris Colfer
Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.
Joshua Foer
Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.
Gertrude Stein
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
Margaret Atwood