Quotes About Legend

What kind of knife is this?" "It's a chip from the chicken legs that hold up Baba Yaga's house. A good-luck charm. Keep it if you want. Just don't tell Baba Yaga you got it from me.

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

Jade Dragon will go.

Okay, so I'm the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.

But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could've immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe she'd ever had any doubts about her body. The firelight shone on her skin, golden and perfect, making her look like some radiant goddess of legend. I wanted to kneel before her and offer eternal obedience.

They tell a story, probably not true, about a cap trooper who was sight-seeing in Paris. He visited Les Invalides, looked down at Napoleon's coffin, and said to a French guard there: Who's he? The Frenchman was properly scandalized. Monsieur does not know? This is the tomb of Napoleon! Napoleon Bonaparte! The greatest soldier who ever lived! The cap trooper thought about it. Then he asked, So? Where were his drops?

In short, Baigent, Lincoln and Leigh want to sell us the oldest of all millennial legends: the True King will return soon, very soon, and cast out the usurpers. They even claim that this archetypal myth occurs in all European countries because the Priory planted it, to prepare us for the day when the seed of Jesus sits in judgment on all nations.

smiled at me again, a smile perfectly capable of launching a thousand ships and very likely to burn the topless towers of Ilium. We

The Aztecs had believed the world would end in one of four ways: earthquake, fire, flood, or jaguars falling from the sky.

Old as carbon, Nix agreed. And so powerful I'm working on my demigoddess badges.

So . . . gods are real?" Aric nodded. "That's how the game came about. They grew bored.

Hark! Hear this tale, the legend of Aidan the Fierce and Reginleit the Radiant One, a pair of lovers both bound and cursed by fate.

warriors—be they human, demoness, siren, changeling or any brave creature from the Lore—knew to pray for it as they died. Thus the Valkyrie were born.

As a boy, Sebastian had listened to his grandfather's tales of fanged devils that lived in the nearby marshes. Vampiir.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

Myth is someone else's religion.

Ric Flair, you put me in this position. You named me the Legend Killer and after Tuesday, you will respect me.

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.