1104 – “Balancing the budget on the backs of the elderly, the sick, the children, and the poor is not only immoral, it is bad economic policy. It is something that must be vigorously opposed.”

-Bernie Sanders

1034 – “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

-Neil Gaiman paraphrasing Gilbert K Chesterton

Chesterton’s Quote: “Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.” [Emphasis Mine]

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1031 – “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”

-Nelson Mandela

1016 – “Treat the Earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

-American Proverb [See Source Notes for Attribution]

885 – “We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”

–David Lynch

839 – “Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can’t expect them to help protect and care for it.”

–David Suzuki

765 – “I believe that dreams — day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing — are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young.”

–L Frank Baum

Today is Tell a Fairy Tale Day, so go out and reread your favorite or tell a new one!

693 – “The attitude that you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from, more than what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try try to teach them. They remember what you are.”

–Jim Henson [Attributed]

514 – “Future historians may well look back upon our time and write, not about how many pounds of pesticide we did or didn’t apply, but by how willing we are to sacrifice our children and future generations for this massive genetic engineering experiment that is based on flawed science and failed promises just to benefit the bottom line of a commercial enterprise.”

–Don Huber, Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology, Purdue University

266 – “Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth, and love.”

–Cornel West