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Quotes About Lore

he collected the stories like treasure.
~ Laini Taylor
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~ Laini Taylor
Magnus had heard the story of how the Nephilim were created many times. They must have forgotten to leave out the bit that said: And the Angel descended from on high and gave his chosen ones fantastic abs.
~ Cassandra Clare
The Silent brothers are doing nude cartwheels in the hallways
~ Cassandra Clare
Yet here poor fool for all my lore, I stand no wiser than before
~ Goethe
To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metathasm, corolopsis.
~ Jack Vance
You have given us a part in a story the bards will sing to our children's children.
~ Jacqueline Carey
a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.
~ Jacqueline Carey
But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Josiah White Buffalo tied the dead man's
~ Terry Grosz
It's a world with its own traditions and lore, some of which are hidden within pianos themselves.
~ Thad Carhart
This neglect of lore associated with Crete is reflected in classical Greek art and literature although, paradoxically, its remnants are found only in Attic myths.6
~ Theodore Ziolkowski
'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,And coming events cast their shadows before.
~ Thomas Campbell
The dissolute and unlawful king came: Herod! I saw him with my own eyes when he called me to Jericho to heal him. I took along my secret herbs—I knew all about such lore—and went. I went, and from that day on, I have not been able to eat meat, for I saw his putrescent flesh; I have not been able to drink wine, for I saw his blood filled with worms. I have retained his stench in my nostrils for over thirty years.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song "You're the One That I Want" from the musical Grease three times in a single day—seemingly by accident, whether in an elevator, on a radio, a telephone hold button, or wherever—it indicates that you'll surely die before sunset. In contrast, the phantom odor of scorched toast merely means that a deceased loved one continues to watch over you and protect you from harm.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.
~ Clive Barker
He was an amateur of sex lore
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Why are you all here?" "One of Bantazar's assassins hit you with an exomangler," Lore said. "He's dead." "A lot dead." Wraith snorted and high-fived Lore. "Massive deadness.
~ Larissa Ione
Know ye yet the edda? Know ye yet it all?
~ Laurence Austine Waddell
Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they were known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley, and Layden.
~ Grantland Rice
Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.
~ Gregory
Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.
~ Gregory Maguire
Legends, if you crossed their path, could get you killed.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.
~ Amity Gaige