Mother Goose Quotes

• When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.

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  Grace Paley

  Mother   Thinking   People  

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• Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

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  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Mother   Used   Stravinsky  

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• I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

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  Clarence Darrow

  Mother   Atheist   Believe  

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

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• I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

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  Clarence Darrow

  Death   Mother   Atheist  

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

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• I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!

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  Dolly Parton

  Mother   Looks   Geese  

  Dolly Parton (2012). “Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You”, p.59, Penguin

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• If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at birth so that Jack in the Beanstalk were in the bible, do you think any child would notice?

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  Bill Maher

  Mother   Children   Thinking  

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• Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?

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  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational   Mother   Responsibility  

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.35, Anchor

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• The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed.The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose.

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  Robert Darnton

  Mother   People   Toil  

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• Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

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  Phil Ochs

  Mother   Games   Lines  

  Song: The Harder They Fall

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• Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes.

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  Elvis Presley

  Mother   Rocks   Rock And Roll  

  Interview quoting in "Pop Chronicles", "Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. Part 1", 1956.

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• Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

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  Aesop

  Gratitude   Eggs   Golden  

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• Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.

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  Neil Young

  Mother   Kids   Games  

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• I came across Mother Goose, so I turned her loose, she was screaming.

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  Jethro Tull

  Mother   Games   Nursery  

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• If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose.

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  Clive Rowe

  Mother   Ideas   Would Be  

  Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.

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