Quotes About Legend

In Khuram it is said that a man with a single knife can kill two thousand men in a single night.

The youngest of three children and orphaned as a young boy, Smoke Jensen is considered one of the fastest draws in the West. His quest to tame the lawless West has become the stuff of legend. Smoke owns the Sugarloaf Ranch in Colorado. Married to Sally Jensen, father to Denise ("Denny") and Louis

Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern.

I'm down here looking at the Potomac River; they say George Washington threw a silver dollar across it once. It looks a little bit too far for me to do that trick, but maybe he could. After all, a dollar went further in those days.

Don't go away! Have a taste of old Monkey's rod!

It's a natural law (or supernatural, if you're so inclined) that weird things appear where people tend to disappear. African jungles, Pacific islands, Himalayan wastelands—wherever expeditionary parties go missing, that's where lost species, Stonehengey stone idols, the flitting shadows of yetis, and ancient, unsurrendering Japanese soldiers are sure to pop up. The

V?l k?da Ledvilas le?enda ir su?u bar?bas magn?ts M?ršals Alriks, kurš uzlaboja savu skriešanas ?trumu, likdams ?irur?iski no?emt sev k?ju pirkstu nagus. " Tie t?pat man krita nost, " paskaidroja M?ršals.

The friend of wisdom is also a friend of the myth. —ARISTOTLE

My mother was from the Fells, but I've never wanted to go. They say there are monsters there." "There are monsters here, healer.

It's hard to know what has become folklore and what is reality. But don't all myths stem from some semblance of fact?

I was full of myth, which is to say full of an idea.

Long time ago, there is a known gentleman named Robin Hood being chased because of stealing for a good cause. There is no more 'Robin Hoods' at the present time, but the good cause is still chasing for gentlemen to come out.

The past is real but marbled by beliefs That turned to myth as time eroded them.

Operando con cifras enormes y provocando estallidos de frenesí generalizado, empecé a crear demoras. El ticker no podía seguirme el ritmo y durante unos minutos era dueña del futuro. Andrew se volvió una leyenda. Todo el mundo lo tenía por clarividente, por un místico.

From the foot, Hercules.

Then, in 1972 Onoda and Kozuka surfaced, and Kozuka was killed in an encounter with Philippine police. In the following half year, three Japanese search parties attempted to persuade Onoda to come out of the jungle, but the only response they received was a thank-you note for some gifts they left. This at least established that he was alive. Owing partly to his reluctance to appear, he became something of a legend in Japan.

When he left Japan, he told his friends that he was going to look for Lieutenant Onoda, a panda and the Abominable Snowman, in that order. Presumably the panda and the Snowman are still waiting, because after only four days on Lubang, Suzuki found Onoda and persuaded him to meet with a delegation from Japan, which Suzuki undertook to summon.

Remember when . . . ? Stories like that were will-o'-the-wisps, glowing in the deepest, darkest parts of forests, leading travelers farther and farther from safety, out toward an ever-moving mark.

The Folk do not rot the way mortals do. Sometimes their bodies grow over with lichen or bloom with mushrooms. I've heard stories about battlefields turning in to green hills.

Let me tell you something about unicorns—they're faeries and faeries aren't to be trusted.

Widzisz, ?adna cz??? tej ba?ni nie by?a k?amstwem, cho? historia by?a zupe?nie nieprawdziwa.

Have you ever heard this one? When you drive past a cemetery, you have to hold your breath. If you don't, the spirits of the newly dead can get in your body through your mouth and then they can possess you.

the leap into heaven, into fame, into legend—then the fall back to earth (guernseyed Icarus) to the whistle's shrill tweet.

the Gordian knot that ties the present and future to the past." In Greek mythology, an oracle claimed that whoever was able to untie an intricate knot tied by King Gordius would become the next ruler of Asia. Alexander the Great, unable to untie the knot, became impatient and swiftly cut it with his sword. The idiom is now meant to express an intractable problem solved with quick, resolute action.