Mother Goose Quotes:

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

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Mother, Believe, Atheism, Mother Goose, Geese

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

topic: Mother, Used, Stravinsky, Mother Goose

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

- Clarence Darrow

source: Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

topic: Mother, Atheist, Believe, Morality And Religion, Mother Goose

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

- Jethro Tull

topic: Mother, Games, Nursery, Mother Goose

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.

- Robert Darnton

topic: Mother, People, Toil, Step Mother, Mother Goose

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

- Phil Ochs

topic: Mother, Games, Lines, Mother Goose

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

- Aesop

topic: Gratitude, Eggs, Golden, Mother Goose, Golden Eggs

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.

- Grace Paley

topic: Mother, Thinking, People, Mother Goose

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

- Dolly Parton

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

topic: Mother, Looks, Geese, Mother Goose

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?

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Mother, Responsibility, Broken, Mother Goose, Responsibilities In Life

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

- Neil Young

topic: Mother, Kids, Games, Mother Goose, Geese

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.

- Elvis Presley

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

topic: Mother, Rocks, Rock And Roll, Juvenile Delinquency, Delinquency

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.

- Clive Rowe

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

topic: Mother, Ideas, Would Be, Mother Goose, Pantomime

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?

- Bill Maher

topic: Mother, Children, Thinking, Jonah, Mother Goose