Nursery Rhymes Quotes:

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

- Mem Fox

topic: Children, Heart, Eight, Literacy And Children, Child Development

A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children." "But they make no sense!" Summer protested "Ah, well," said Ben. "Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

- Katherine Catmull

source: Katherine Catmull (2012). “Summer and Bird”, p.41, Penguin

topic: Summer, Children, Wall, Well Said, Nursery Rhymes

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

- Tre Cool

topic: Song, Rhyming, Alphabet, Nursery Rhymes

Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

- Lauren Oliver

source: Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.39, Harper Collins

topic: Art, Home, Bed, His Smile, Mutts

Jack Sprat could eat no fat,His wife could eat no lean. A real sweet pair of neurotics.

- Jack Sharkey

topic: Sweet, Real, Wife, Nursery Rhymes

I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

- Bobby McFerrin

topic: Song, Dark, Thinking, Nursery Rhymes

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

- Mika

topic: Childhood, Records, Fairytale, Nursery Rhymes

Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.

- Karisma Kapoor

topic: Song, Fun, Thinking, Fun Song, Nursery Rhymes

In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5 kindergarten class and declared the nursery rhyme unconstitutional. The court explained that although the word 'God' was not contained in this nursery rhyme, if someone were to hear the rhyme, he might think that it was talking about God - and that would be unconstitutional!

- David Barton

topic: Christian, Religious, Thinking, Nursery Rhymes

I have a little nursery rhyme for all you children out there, something even the Godfather can understand. 'You can prance and you can dance, but when it comes to relations, keep it in your pants.

- Kurt Angle

topic: Children, Littles, Pants, Nursery Rhymes

I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star!

- Charli XCX

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Stars, Want, Nursery, Nursery Rhymes

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.

- Oliver Sacks

topic: Song, Children, Musical, Nursery Rhymes

Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time Because once upon a time We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told We need words to hold us and the world to behold us For us to truly know our souls

- Taylor Mali

topic: Children, Voice, Soul, Quality Time, Nursery Rhymes

I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I guess I thought I could do the same thing. I wrote my first poem, my first published poem, when I was eight-and-a-half years old. It came out in The Boston Traveller and from then on, I suppose, I've been a bit of a professional.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Source: www.english.illinois.edu

topic: Eight, Boston, Years, Nursery Rhymes

Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she watches is the cartoon channel.

- Choi Soo-young

topic: Morning, Singing, Cartoon, Snsd, Nursery Rhymes

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

- Tom Felton

topic: Song, Musician, Band, Great Times, Nursery Rhymes

On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.94, Anchor

topic: Land, Nurse, Broken, God Is Dead, Pure Bliss

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being really annoyed at the depiction of Hickory Dickory Dock in a rag book of nursery rhymes because the clock in the drawing was completely wrong for the period.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Book, Boys, Drawing, Nursery Rhymes

Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head, and, like an egg, you allow yourself to topple onto your side, your legs still pulled hard against your torso. You lie like that a long while, watching the chrome shell of the tape measure sparkle until the sun moves.

- Chris Bohjalian

source: Chris Bohjalian (2011). “The Night Strangers”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

topic: Lying, Moving, Your Side, Chrome, Torso

Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.

- Richey Edwards

topic: Europe, Atheism, Barbie, Big Mac, Nursery Rhymes

The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Kitchen, Gone, Tables, Microwaves, Nursery Rhymes

The nursery rhyme ends when a spider comes along and frightens Miss Muffet straight off her tuffet. I have wondered about what kind of lesson this is for a young girl. If you're eating your curds and whey and a spider comes along, I don't think there's anything wrong with picking up a newspaper, smashing it, and going back to your breakfast.

- Sloane Crosley

topic: Girl, Thinking, Nurse, Smashing, Nursery Rhymes

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: "Child Psychology and Nonsense" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, October 15, 1921.

topic: Educational, Two, People, Nursery Rhymes

Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old mutt It showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut. Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I was stopped by a vampire, a rotting old wreck It showed me its teeth and went straight for my neck. Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead. I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart. -From "A Child's Walk Home," Nursery Rhymes and Folk Tales

- Lauren Oliver

source: Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.39, Harper Collins

topic: Art, Children, Home, Mutts, Nursery Rhymes

Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

- Anne Sexton

source: Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

topic: Taken, Carpe Diem, Keys, Nursery Rhymes

How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and adorable?" "Just like you." "With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes" "Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.

- Shannon Hale

topic: Nurse, Adorable, Trying, Nursery Rhymes

When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

- Errol Morris

topic: Crazy, Talking, Levels, Nursery Rhymes

I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.

- Paula Rego

source: John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

topic: Song, Art, Children, Nursery Rhymes

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Baseball, Giving Up, Mean, Baseball Caps, Nursery Rhymes

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Running, Book, People, Burglars, One Way