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Quotes About Legend

One Irishman, Melaghin McCabb, boasted that he had dispatched eighty Spaniards with his gallowglass axe.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Lugh Lámhfada, Lugh of the Long Hand, the senior of the gods and patron of all arts and crafts, was eventually demoted into Lugh-chromain, "stooping Lugh", and from there Anglicized into "leprechaun".
~ Unknown
There is a legend that in every age God spares the world the destruction it deserves only because there are a certain number of Abrahams, righteous men and women who keep the world alive by their righteousness and their prayers, by the mass and the gravity of their righteousness reverberating on the walls of the divine mercy. No one but God knows who these righteous are or how many there are.
~ Peter Kreeft
Legend has it he was killed in a place called Durban, which is in the KwaZulu-Natal province. Which is, uh, where? Nellie said. Past the Mpumalanga province, Dan replied. Thanks a lot.
~ Peter Lerangis
And I found a statement by Hawthorne which helped to explain his method: "I have sometimes produced a singular and not unpleasing effect, so far as my own mind was concerned, by imagining a train of incidents in which the spiritual mechanism of the faery legend should be combined with the characters and manners of everyday life.
~ Peter Straub
This was the only place in all the world for the last of the old heroes: Druss the Legend, standing with the last hopes of the Drenai on the battlements of the greatest fortress ever built, waiting for the largest army in the world. Where else would he be?
~ David Gemmell
A Dutch parent has a decidedly hairier story to relate, telling his children, "Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don't know for sure, but we want you to be prepared.
~ David Sedaris
It was an innocent question, made reasonable by the body of confused and often contradictory rumors that make Zora Neale Hurston's own legend as richly curious and as dense as are the black myths she did so much to preserve in her classic anthropological works, Mules and Men and Tell My Horse, and in her fiction.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Once Africans could all fly because they never ate salt. Many of them were brought to Jamaica to be slaves, but they never were slaves. They flew back to Africa. Those who ate salt had to stay in Jamaica and be slaves, because they were too heavy to fly.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I always admired Graeme Souness.
~ Chris Kamara
No Alex Higgins, no snooker.
~ Alex Higgins
Kane is one of the best big men of all-time.
~ Big Show
Maybe everyone lives forever. Or maybe, like in the animated movie 'Coco,' only those whose stories get told by the living definitely do. It takes a story worth telling.
~ Andy Dunn
I thought it was so cool that all you knew about Prince was about his artistry and music.
~ Max Martin
Henry Aaron is the standard of excellence.
~ Howard Bryant
Up rose Robin Hood
~ Howard Pyle
Corto Maltese:"L'Eldorado di Raleigh, la Città d'Oro di Orellana, il regno favoloso di Cibola del Coronado... sono fatti della stessa sostanza dei sogni. E' sorprendente vedere uomini di cultura come lei interessarsi a simili storie..." Levi Colombia:"I sogni sono d'oro, la realtà è di piombo...
~ Hugo Pratt
I'm the man that made wrestling famous.
~ Hulk Hogan
Hitler's rise from humble beginnings to 'seize' power by 'triumph of the will' was the stuff of Nazi legend. In fact, political miscalculation by those with regular access to the corridors of power rather than any actions on the part of the Nazi leader played a larger role in placing him in the Chancellor's seat.
~ Ian Kershaw
Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.
~ Unknown
Un hombre tiene que ser un Salomón antes de que su anillo mágico funcione. (Hafiz)
~ Idries Shah
Within ten weeks of his death, Hank had as many albums on the market as he did all the years he lived; hundreds more would follow. The oil well that Hank Williams became in death was starting to gush
~ Unknown
A mermaid's tears are precious. Sea glass is said to be made of mermaid tears.
~ Colleen Coble
Vampires couldn't scale the stone walls surrounding the house, for the stone was stamped with crosses in honor of St. Heath, who, apparently, had died upon one (although the story was rather muddied, and no one other than her husband's family, the de Lacys, had ever heard of St. Heath, so there was no way to verify its accuracy).
~ Colleen Gleason