Quotes about godmother (15 Quotes)




    This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it




    You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, ''I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out.'' If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.''

    Know you what it is to be a child It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.






    It all began with a simple observation Fairy tales always focus on the princess and the prince. The godmother is usually a stock character, fairly one-dimensional. But what about her journey, her trials and tribulations After all, fairyhood is essentially a job, like waiting tables, or litigating. What's it really like to be a fairy day in and day out Since all fairy tales need a spell of some kind and it's all been done before, we tried to find an original approach. It occurred to us that it would be more exciting to engage the audience's imagination throughout the show by having Izzy place the spell on the kingdom and not on the princess. It makes the audience imagine horns and warts and scales of green that aren't really there.


    We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.



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