Quotes About Legend

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Let the word and the legend go before you. There are those who will carry both. Fools, perchance. Let the word go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

The legends describe Patrick as an extremely pious child. In one, the infant Patrick miraculously provides the holy water for his own baptism! A blind and oddly underprepared priest, realizing that he doesn't have any water on hand, takes baby Patrick's hand and makes the sign of the cross over the ground.

Fire, water, earth, and air, All meet in the dragon's lair. Six brave hearts have failed the test;One continues in the quest. Remember well the words you know When on to find your fate you go.

And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

I think every little girl's dream is to be a mermaid or to see a mermaid. [When I was younger] I would go to the beach and cover myself in the sand. People from different cultures and centuries have the same idea of what mermaids are ... so that's maybe a cool thing to think about.

One of the great artists of this period, Barnett Newman, wrote about his response and that of his fellow artists: "We are freeing ourselves of the impediments of memory, association, nostalgia, legend, myth, or what have you, that have been devices of Western European painting." In their attempt to

Eric Van Lustbader

No reptiles are found there [in Ireland], and no snake can live there; for, though often carried thither out of Britain, as soon as the ship comes near the shore, and the scent of the air reaches them, they die.

And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse.... Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse.

Nobody knows why some systems—rivers, forests, possibly the London Underground but we're not sure—acquire a genius loci. Not even the genii locorum themselves know the why and the how of it—they only know it happens.

For operational reasons," says Indigo, "you should call me Gaspode." "Gaspode?" "That's my cover name," says Indigo. "Part of my legend.

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen,

Are you expecting to meet a dragon?" I asked, and remembered Brook had mentioned them, too. Perhaps dragons were a Northern thing, like flat caps and an ingrained sense of grievance.

Her legend, which would sprout a thousand hallucinations, had been born in our midst – born of stories and rumours which, in time, would become some of the most extravagant realities of our lives.

To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

He will go down as a legend along with Elvis and the Beatles and Michael Jackson. Bob Marley is right up there. He was a leader for reggae music - he really made it appeal to a world audience.

One of the biggest regrets I have in life is not getting an opportunity to work with Yash Chopra.