Barbara Walters Quotes

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.

If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.

Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

I had heard stories about witches flying on a broom as a kid and I would always think, wow, they had their own private jet.

Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.

I love fairy tales.

When I was a kid, I really got into monsters.