Folklore Quotes

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland. - 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

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. - Terri Windling

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies. - Richard King

This hurricane re-writes our folklore. It shows you can't predict anything and can't build to protect. - Bob Anderson

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research. - Alan Dundes

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. - Raymond Chandler