Quotes About Legend

Once upon a time, long long ago, before monsters roamed the earth, all the stars hung quietly in the sky, and great cities of wonder and light reached up to meet them.

the Bièvre had once been a bucolic stream where, according to legend, beaver thrived (possibly giving the watercourse its name). For centuries it meandered through a countryside dotted with ancient watermills and rustic villages.

The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.

La légende dit que Charlie Chaplin et Adolf Hitler se changeaient en lions à la nuit tombante ; l'un a concentré son énergie vers la création, l'autre vers la destruction. Pourtant, dans leur forme animale, il était quasiment impossible de les discerner l'un de l'autre.

Así que Atlas era un gigante que tenía su reino al oeste, en los confines de la Tierra?, es decir… —Y entonces comprendió—. ¡En el mare Atlanticus! ¡De Atlas, Atlanticus!

Impossible. An old elf swearword.

Celebrated radio man Walter Winchell worked for a newspaper called the Graphic early in his career. Legend has it he was asked in those days if he worked at a newspaper. He supposedly joked in reply: "Yeah, but don't tell my mother. She still thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse.

The myth of the dragon is a very peculiar one, precisely because it is a truly global myth. Giant serpents appear in mythologies from all over the world: China, Scandinavia, Greece, Persia, Germany, Central America, the United Kingdom, even Africa. There is no discernible reason for this. How could the myth of a large serpentine creature be so consistent across the ancient world? From: Dragons in History by Eleanor Lock (Border Press, London, 1999)

Who the fuck is Old Jolene?

Legend has it that while drinking wine in a boat on the river, [8th century Chinese poet Li Po] tried to grab the moon's reflection on the surface and tumbled in, which is probably the poet's equivalent of dying bravely in battle.

In the Far West there is one thing which is more fabulously valuable then gold, even. And that is a story, whether it be truth or good, true-sounding fiction. Stories

The blood of the guitar was Chuck Berry red.

Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.

Some people say the woollybear can forecast the weather. The more black it has, legend says, the colder the winter will be. But scientists say it grows

I think it's better to be a legend while ye're alive to enjoy it.

Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous.

Of all the Grail romances the most famous, and the most artistically significant, is Parzival, composed sometime between 1195 and 1216.

the Ordre de Sion was founded by Godfroi de Bouillon in 1090

the Temple of Solomon was founded in 1118.

Among the most popular and evocative of medieval myths is that of Lohengrin, the "Swan Knight.

The rescue of the hostages, so far away from home, is about to become legend. But it has exacted a price: three of the hostages have died in the firefight. As has one soldier, Lieutenant-Colonel Yoni Netanyahu, brother of future Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Respect the Sword, Grimm.

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.