Quotes About Legend

He knows the legend of the Wandering Jew who struck Christ on the day of the crucifixion and was then condemned to roam the world forever without rest. Some say this condemnation was in fact an act of grace because the devil can't find and take a man whose remorse drives him to wander ceaselessly in search of absolution.

In Greek mythology, Gordius was a peasant who became king of Phrygia. He tied an extremely complicated knot—the famous Gordian knot—that no one could untie. When Alexander learned that

whoever solved the knot was destined to rule all of Asia, he simply sliced it with his sword.

Will they remember us, Aravan? Will Mankind remember us at all? ... Mayhap, Gwylly, mayhap. Mayhap in their legends and their fables. Mayhap in naught but their dreams.

Did ye know that the silkies put aside their skins when they come ashore, and walk like men? And if ye find a silkie's skin and hide it, he—or she—" he added, fairly, "canna go into the sea again, but must stay with ye on the land.

It's two hundred year, in the Highland tales—when folk fall asleep on fairy duns and end up dancing all night wi' the Auld Folk; it's usually two hundred year later when they come back to their own place.

And some say the loch's bottomless—got a hole in the center deeper than anything else in Scotland. On

Every legend has one foot on the truth.

She heard the silkies singing, there upon the rocks, one, and two, and three of them, and she saw from her tower, one and two, and three of them, and so she came down, and went to the sea, and so under it, to live wi' the silkies.

The first time that I met B.I.G. was in 1994, summer of '94 - I believe it was August. I think it was right after 'Ready to Die' came out.

I want a dragon.

Dylan can do no wrong.

Ozzy has dyslexia.

Mohamed Salah, well if you go to Egypt he is a god there.

I feel like Elvis. Only alive.

I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.

Elvis was a great singer. He really was.

You can't have a greater person to emulate your game around than Scottie Pippen.

Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

Whether or not you've studied art history, you may have heard some of Vasari's stories—part historical urban legend, part morality tale, his great collective biography spun visual aphorisms that endure to this day.

After many years as barbaric wanderers, the Aztecs were given a heavenly sign, as they had expected. For it had been foretold that at some time during their wanderings an eagle with a snake in its mouth would be seen perched on a cactus. Following the legend, the Aztecs founded a city where an eagle appeared, naming the spot Tenochtitlán.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

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