Quotes About Legend

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

is as old as man. It has come down through the centuries, misted in legend, shrouded with the dark dread of a hereditary curse. In the Egypt of the Pharaohs, a woman was forbidden to bear further children if her firstborn son bled to death from a minor wound. The ancient Talmud barred circumcision in a family if two successive male children had suffered fatal hemorrhages.

This is the greatest pirate story ever," Bowden said. "And no one knows about it.

And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

Mad as the moon when Merlin falls.

History is filled with fictional people.

Beyond the River of the Blessed, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Avalon. Our swords were shattered in our hands and we hung our shields on the oak tree. The silver towers were fallen, into a sea of blood. How many miles to Avalon? None, I say, and all. The silver towers are fallen.

The last wendigo died in 1962, or so the story goes. Reputedly, he (it?) stood in front of the train to Churchill, Manitoba, believing that the train would stop for him, a supernatural being, and then he would be able to eat the passengers. The train ran him over. Sic transit gloria mundi.

In the tall tales told by firelight there was always a brief and laconic conversation.

Alcuni miti sono storie vere che raggiungono un significato mitico perché le persone di cui raccontano sembrano più grandi della vita e sembrano vivere la loro vita più intensamente delle persone comuni.

I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me

All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.

Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

I mercanti cinesi, olandesi e inglesi avevano cercato ripetutamente di rompere quell'assurdo isolamento, ma avevano ottenuto soltanto di metter su una fragile e pericolosa rete di contrabbando. Ci avevano guadagnato pochi soldi, molti guai e alcune leggende, buone da vendere nei porti, la sera.

Lurid tales are the South's principal export. - Rhett Butler

Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.

Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Corbett's exploits brought him fame as a hunter. His book turned him into a legend. - Ruskin Bond on Jim Corbett

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Hyperion and