Quotes About Legend

From beyond the grave, dead living legend John Wayne will communicate telepathically with President Reagan to help frame U.S. foreign policy. Mellowed by death, the strapping actor will advocate a hopeful policy or peace and love.

Legend says Gabriel's trumpet will sound the last judgment. I do the same sort of thing with my rifle.

When Slenderman screams, the world will end.

Slenderman is looking at you.

In 1450, a pack of wolves killed and ate forty people in the middle of Paris. The leader of the wolves was called Courtaud (which translates as 'Bobtail') and was said to be a deep red in colour. The wolves were lured into the heart of the city and were speared and stoned to death in front of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Valkyrietype

Even his name remained mysterious. Just Shane. Nothing else. We never knew whether that was his first name or last name or, indeed, any name that came from his family. "Call me Shane," he said, and that was all he ever said. But I conjured up all manner of adventures for him, not tied to any particular time or place, seeing him as a slim and dark and dashing figure coolly passing through perils that would overcome a lesser man.

Romulus and Remus, twin sons of dark Mars and a human vestal, sucking at the dugs of a wolf bitch.

The old dream that has tempted man from the beginning, the medieval legend of the man who sells his soul for an inexhaustible purse, which recurs with an enticing insistence through all the changes of civilization, is perhaps in process of being realized, and not a for a single man but all.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Pobre de aquel, que no hizo de su infancia Una leyenda.

Only when pressed did Mabel admit that they'd never met face to face. At most, she'd 'once' glimpsed her object 'flitting' away. 'Flitting' fits the legend of shyness, a shrinking creature, but the cutting edge of the Dickinson voice conveys the opposite: it's bared, at the ready.

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.

Imagine such a happiness. Like drinking wine your whole life, instead of water. Like having Achilles to run your errands.

All heroes are fools, he liked to say. What he meant was, all heroes but me.

Some had a whole epic, others just a verse

Among our bragging, ranting heroes, Peleus was the exception: a man of modesty.

Ghost Riders in the Sky" meets Vince Guaraldi!

There was once a Dixie Mafia, a Redneck Mafia, a Texas Mafia, all similar gangs of thugs. It looks like most of them were long on legend and short on criminal efficiency. Just a bunch of Bubbas who liked to sell whiskey and break legs.

Mary of Guise, whose emblem, or impresa, was the phoenix.

the mythical bird that set fire to itself and rose anew from the ashes every five hundred years;

Her mother had amassed twelve sets of tapestries, one on the theme of the Twelve Labors of Hercules

St. Brigid of Ireland, the 6th-century abbess of Kildare, was noted for the miracle of transforming her used bathwater into beer for visiting clerics.