Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time. . . ' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.
Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time. . . "
To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.
Once upon a time when there was no time.
Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.
Once upon a time is now.
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.
Once upon a time, began the story of you. Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened. And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are. Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.
Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.
Once upon a time there was an island named Blogosphere, and at the very center of that island stood a great castle built of stone, and spreading out from that castle for miles in every direction was a vast settlement of peasants who lived in shacks fashioned of tin and cardboard and straw.
Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.
We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects. ' Precisely,' said a passing bush.
Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.
Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.