Quotes About Stories

I may not be able to leave behind wealth or splendor, but I will try to leave behind examples and stories of my love and kindness to inspire you to be kind and spread the message of kindness.

Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world.

We are always telling stories to ourselves, about ourselves...But we can control those stories...I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them

What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.

Reading the timeless stories strengthen my spirit in times of suffering.

If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength.

People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives.

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.

I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death.

How can you be lonely, Mom said, when there are always people who want to share their stories with you, to tell you about their lives and families and dreams and plans?

We'd both already read several novels by Tóibín: The Master and The Story of Night and The Blackwater Lightship.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

There is a war between the living and the dead, and the Irish stories keep harping upon it. ("The Queen And The Fool")

The special task of environmental historians is to tell stories that carry us back and forth across the boundary between people and nature to reveal just how culturally constructed that boundary is -- and how dependent upon natural systems it remains.

From the moment people first began practicing rituals, they have been creating folk tales and legends to celebrate their past and create a unique cultural identity. Mythik Press carries these legacies forward by publishing the greatest stories ever concocted, from King Arthur to the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Manifestly, man is the ape that imitates, tells stories, seeks status, morally condemns others, and yearns for the good old days, all of which guarantee a human future studded with religious and financial mass manias.