Godmother Quotes

• I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

  Vivien Leigh

  Grandmother, Grand Mother, Load

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• I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Family, Mother

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

  Janette Rallison

  Keys, Overcoming, Problem

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• I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Cute, Hilarious

  "My Point...And I Do Have One". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, 1995.

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• Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that 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 had its fairy godmother in its soul.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Faith, Horse, Children

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• I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living - will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and a Wicked Witch.

  Lucinda Riley

  Believe, Hero, Wicked

  Lucinda Riley (2011). “The Girl on the Cliff”, p.407, Penguin UK

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• 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?

  Charles Dickens

  Wise, Words Of Wisdom, Serious

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.427, Xist Publishing

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• I was a teenage godmother.

  Theresa May

  Teenage

  "Theresa May: David Cameron's lady in waiting". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2009.

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• That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Aunt, Circles, Ministry

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Know ye what it is to be a child? 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.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Children, Believe, Water

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• I'm a - I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two... or five or something, and she's, uh... I don't know, I've never seen her - the pictures are precious, she just seems so, y'know... She lives clear across town, I don't have that kind of time, but, um... Well, I send money and stuff, it's not like I don't have a connection...

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Light

  "Taste This". Live album by Ellen DeGeneres, October 1, 1996.

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• Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

  Courteney Cox

  Mother, Accessories, Littles

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• Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

  Diane Setterfield

  Once Upon A Time, Stories, Fairy

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• Even miracles take a little time.

  Walt Disney

  Fairy Princess, Miracle, Littles

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• The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.

  Jim Butcher

  Creepy, Harry Dresden, Faerie

  "Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book Thirteen". Book by Jim Butcher, July 28, 2011.

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• 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.

  Ben Vereen

  Light, Long, People

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• I am not personally a parent.  But I do have two godchildren and am expecting a third.  I am naturally concerned for their future.  If I ruled the world you could bet your boots that none of them would ever set their eyes on any such contraptions as digital clocks and pocket calculators.  But alas, I do not rule the world and that, I am afraid, is the story of my life - always a godmother, never a God.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Eye, Two, Parent

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.104, Vintage

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• Please tell me a story about a girl who gets away." I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. "Gets away from what, though?" "From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn't really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off of the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like 'happy' and 'good' will never find her." "You don't want her to be happy and good?" "I'm not sure what's really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Running, Secret

  Helen Oyeyemi (2010). “White is for Witching”, p.165, Pan Macmillan

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• Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

  Charles Dickens

  Good Things, Lost

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.452, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The public has become my fairy godmother.

  Eartha Kitt

  Fairy, Fairy Godmother

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• Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list? Then there is the woman you love. Who's she? That's another story.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Children

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'd just love magic. I'd love to be able to just click and transport. I'd be like a fairy little godmother, I think, going round hearing what people wish for and seeing what I could do for them.

  Delta Goodrem

  Thinking, People, Magic

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• People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

  Patti Smith

  Names, People, Punk

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• You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.

  Ben Vereen

  Light, Haste, Stills

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• Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

  Charlaine Harris

  Fairy, Fairy Godmother

  Charlaine Harris (2006). “Definitely Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.138, Penguin

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