Quotes About Legend

The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man.

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

Indians got a story," Hondo said, "about a hunter who chased a puma until he caught him. Then it was the other way around.

Myth is history in a masquerade costume. Peel away the fantastical facade, and you will always find a core of truth. Adrien Morel

As I sat there, the town clock struck twelve, and the sound reminded me of the legend, which affirms that all dumb animals are endowed with speech for one hour after midnight on Christmas Eve, in memory of the animals who lingered near the manger when the blessed Christ Child was born.

Washington chose Wayne to lead a picked force of 1,350 infantry to mount a surprise raid against the new British outpost at Stony Point. The commander sketched out a plan to scale the 150-foot-high cliff overhanging the river, prompting Wayne, according to legend, to boast, "I'll storm hell, sir, if you'll make the plans!"21 To which Washington retorted drily, "Better try Stony Point first, general.

When Franklin suggested on June 28th that each session start with a prayer for heavenly help, Hamilton countered that this might foster a public impression that embarrassments and dissensions within the convention had suggested this measure. According to legend, Hamilton also rebutted Franklin with the jest that the convention didn't need foreign aid.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

As he stood in the red light of the oil-lamp, strong, tall, and beautiful, his long black hair sweeping over his shoulders, the knife swinging at his neck, and his head crowned with a wreath of white jasmine, he might easily have been mistaken for some wild god of a jungle legend. -Son, she said at last,—her eyes were full of pride,—have any told thee that thou art beautiful beyond all men? Hah? said Mowgli, for naturally he had never heard anything of the kind.

It is not any common earth, Water or wood or air, But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye That you and I will fare.

And yet half a beast is the great God Pan To laugh as he sits by the river; Making a legend out of a man. The true Gods weep for the loss and the pain For the reed that will never grow again As a reed, with the reeds, by the river.?

On this day Bisnaga moves out of the realm of the fantastic into that of the historical, and the great river of its story flows into the ocean of stories which is the history of the world.

If tales are important, they must be well-shaped.

I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

The Countess G—— insists upon it that he is a vampire.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining.

Jimi Hendrix selected one of her photos for the cover of Electric Ladyland.

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Usually you can only catch the Sasquatch blur of your own legendary moments in the side mirrors.

My father says Alamagüselum lives in the walls and drinks tears.

Die Todten reiten schnell. (For the dead travel fast.) —"LENORE," GOTTFRIED BÜRGER

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.