Quotes About Legend

So the jelly fish slowly walked towards the pine-tree. In those ancient days the jelly fish had four legs and a hard shell like a tortoise.

My Lord Bag of Rice.

he became very rich and prosperous, and was henceforth known as My Lord Bag of Rice.

One old courtier, Jofuku by name, said that far away across the seas there was a country called Horaizan,

that ancient legend about paradise ... Why, it's about us, about today. Yes! Just think. Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative. Those idiots chose freedom, and what came of it? Of course, for ages afterward they longed for the chains.

In ancient tales she could have been one of those divine creatures who borrow their mothers' wombs to enter the mortal world and make a name for themselves, as a heroine or a devil, depending on the intention of the heavenly powers.

A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.

Have you ever met a dragon that couldn't talk?

Legends had been written about less.

no one ever said the Baba Yagas were sane. There were many job requirements, but clearly that wasn't one of them.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. -Francois de La Rochfoucauld

Where does the life of the boy end and the life as a legend begin? Most likely for Al Capone, it happened somewhere between working for Johnny Torrio and working for Frankie Yale, and his marriage to the pretty Irish girl who said to anyone who would listen that he broke her heart but she loved him anyway.

The question remains: When did he graduate from person to myth, and from myth to legend? The legends may not be true, but they are definitely real to the world at large.

Dennis: Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.

That mansion, as it was called, brought on everyone who lived in it, or even went near it, a curse that was like that of the pharaohs.

Other stories tell how I eat innocent newborns, how I'm ten feet tall, how I breathe fire and have great dragon wings. None of these are wholly accurate. I don't have dragon wings, I don't breathe fire, I'm only eight feet tall and I've never eaten a newborn that didn't have it coming. My name is Mevolent. What's yours?

What's a Dullahan?' 'He's a headless horseman, in the service of the banshee.' 'Headless?' 'Yes.' 'Seriously?' 'Yes.' 'So he has no head?' 'That's usually what headless means.' 'No head at all?' 'You're really getting hung up on this headless thing, aren't you?' 'It's just kind of silly, even for us.' 'Yet you spend your days with a living skeleton.' 'But at least he has a head.' 'True.' 'He even has a spare.

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

One old myth says that faeries would sometimes steal human children and replace them with faerie changelings. So if you wake up one day and your brother or sister is acting like a jerk, they might have been swapped by faeries.

Ever seen Xena? Wonder Woman? Weird Science? Yeah. He wants a mythical creature.

And so it was for a long time. Some wise men wrote down the story of those voyages and of that land, and people read the tale and liked it, but no one remembered where the place was. It all seemed like a fairy tale. Long afterwards, however, men began to read those stories with wide-open eyes and to wonder.

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