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Quotes About Legend

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
~ Walt Whitman
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
~ Bernard Malamud
History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.
~ Horace Walpole
Shawn Michaels is quite simply the greatest performer in WWE history.
~ Chris Jericho
History is filled with fictional people.
~ Robyn
And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
~ Jean Cocteau
History is the distillation of rumour.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Sarah turned around and there standing just a few feet from her was the legend himself, and he was far from disappointing.
~ C.A. Pruit, The Chapel
History a distillation of rumor
~ Thomas Carlyle
When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.
~ Bobby Knight
If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.
~ Carl Yastrzemski
I'm very at home working with mythology.
~ Tori Amos
[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.
~ Richard Brookhiser
Dracula, who said while they drove a wooden stake into his heart, Boy, I sure hope this is heartburn. Never got a dinner!
~ Red Buttons
I hope I don't get a roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris.
~ Chuck Norris
I hope every night is stunning where you are. In my words, you are a legend.
~ Maria Elena, Eternal Youth
I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.
~ Roy Orbison
FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.
~ Brandon Mull
English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.
~ George Mikes
Well, honor is the subject of my story.
~ William Shakespeare
My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.
~ Jerry Lee Lewis
The moment there is imagination there is myth
~ Camille Paglia
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne