Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pine cone? That way, he learns that "wishing" isn't going to save our national forests. I wanted to get the ten cents." ~Lee Rogow, "The Tooth Fairy," in Collier's, 1949 It wouldn't have come out for a while yet, but I pushed it back and forth until it did. ~Lee Rogow, "The Tooth Fairy," in Collier's, 1949 In the palm was the tooth which had been missing from the smile. The little girl looked up and smiled, the gentle dignity of her expression broken by an incongruous gap in her small white teeth. Unless you're as stupid as a lamppost you've got to wonder what's coming off next, your arm? Your leg? Your neck? Every morning when you wake up it seems a lot of your parts aren't stuck on as good as they used to be. You can't be too sure, though, 'cause it shakes you up a whole lot more than grown folks think it does when perfectly good parts of your body commence to loosening up and falling off of you. You tell some adult about what's happening but all they do is say it's normal. At first you think it's kind of funny, but the tooth keeps getting looser and looser and one day, in the middle of pushing the tooth back and forth and squinching your eyes shut, you pull it clean out. when some real scary things start to happen to your body, it's around then that your teeth start coming a-loose in your mouth. They can do all sorts of things that we never could do! ~Louise Price Bell, "There IS a Santa Claus!", 1935 That is the fun about fairies and fairy-like people, you know, Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy wouldn't be half so much fun if they were like we are. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605, translated from the Spanish by several hands Very tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond. ~Peter Ustinov, in National Enquirer, as quoted in The Reader's Digest, 1986 Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. ~Terri Guillemets, "Meeting the family," 1996 What's more adorable than a toothless grin? Other than a dimple in a cute little chin, Hamilton, "To My Toothless Son," in Our Western World's Most Beautiful Poems, edited and published by John Campbell, World of Poetry Press, 1985 But no matter how odd is the tradition of giving gifts or money for falling-out body parts, in the end there must be some molar to the story and so I offer you my collection of quotes on said subject. One time I got 50 cents (but no gum) and being over-the-top excited I ran around the corner into my parents' bedroom so fast to tell them that I got carpet burn on the bottom of my feet. Welcome to the Web's first page of tooth fairy quotes! As a child, I remember getting a quarter and a five-stick pack of sugarless gum whenever I lost a tooth. Tooth Fairy Quotes, Sayings about Losing a Tooth The Quote Garden ™
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