154 Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.

Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he was the last to be cast and the tin had run out. Still, there he stood, just as steadfast on his one leg as the others on their two; and he is the tin soldier we are going to hear about.

It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.

Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.