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Quotes About Legend

This belonged to my sister-in-law, Prometheus explained. Pandora. A lump formed in my throat. As in Pandora's box? Prometheus shook his head. I don't know how this box business got started. It was never a box. It was a pithos , a storage jar. I suppose Pandora's pithos doesn't have the same ring to it.
~ Rick Riordan
If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron wouldn't let us call the place the Poop Pile, especially after it had been named for Zeus, who doesn't have much of a sense of humor.
~ Rick Riordan
I turned to Annabeth and shook my head in exasperation. "Always Hercules. What is it with Hercules?" Annabeth shrugged. "He had a great publicist.
~ Rick Riordan
Yes,' she said. 'The Great Prophecy has begun.' Pandemonium broke out.
~ Rick Riordan
Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God
~ Rick Riordan
ZEUS SUX and TYPHOEUS WUZ HERE.
~ Rick Riordan
If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?
~ Rick Riordan
To business.Tux Dude extended his hand. I am Prometheus. I was too surprised to shake.The fire-stealer guy?The chained-to-the-rock-with-the-vultures guy? Prometheus winced. He touched the scratches on his face.Please, don't mention the vultures. But yes, I stole fire from the gods and gave it to your ancestors. In return, the ever merciful Zeus had me chained to a rock and tortured for all eternity.
~ Rick Riordan
Oh, I see," Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blow-fish. I am Poseidon." "Poseidon? That's an interesting name." "Yes, I like it. I've gone by other names, but I do prefer Poseidon." "Like the god of the sea." "Very much like that, yes.
~ Rick Riordan
Leto had two beautiful babies—a boy named Apollo and a girl named Artemis. They were born on the seventh day of the seventh month
~ Rick Riordan
Some legends say that Hera's breast milk sprayed across the sky and created the Milky Way. I don't know. That seems like a whole lot of solar systems from just one squirt
~ Rick Riordan
We don't know much about Otrera from the old stories. Those Ancient Greek dudes didn't care where Otrera came form or what made her tick. Why would that be? 1) She was a woman. 2) She was a scary woman. 3) She was a scary woman who killed Ancient Greek dudes.
~ Rick Riordan
How could he explain? If he told her that after the vision, all the knights had gone in quest of the Grail, would she understand?
~ Katherine Paterson
Legenda adalah kisah yang kau rasakan dalam empedalmu dimana dengan berjalan­­nya waktu akan menjadi nyata di dalam hatimu. --Nasihat seekor burung hantu kepada anaknya--
~ Kathryn Lasky
FACTS ABOUT UNICORNS
~ Kathryn Lasky
May the dragon you find be well fed.
~ Kay Kenyon
Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it—and Gawain's posture took on an unmistakable grandeur.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Ghost hunters can be the most ingenious breed when it comes to inventing ghastly tales, but ask them to think up a name for the ghost of a woman dressed in white, and they give you "the White Lady.
~ Kelley Armstrong
who wanted to see a monster, even if it meant that you got to tell everyone about it?
~ Kelly Link
Mike Laga will make you forget about every power hitter that ever lived.
~ Sparky Anderson
The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.
~ Jim Butcher, Death Masks
he drank and behaved outrageously because it was expected of him: he was living up to his legend.
~ William Peter Blatty
Orpheus with his lute made trees,And the mountain-tops that freeze,Bow themselves, when he did sing.
~ William Shakespeare
Saint George, that swing'd the dragon, and e'er sinceSits on his horse back at mine hostess' door.
~ William Shakespeare