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Quotes About Legend

People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.
~ Richelle Mead
You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It's an honor to walk in the footsteps of a legend. As host I intend to honor the tradition of The Bob Hope Classic and have a great time blazing a new path.
~ George Lopez
Once upon a time, is how stories begin...
~ N'Zuri Za Austin
Not everything can stand the test of time, but a story can.
~ A.D. Posey
You are charismatic. Men are drawn to you. I am drawn to you. And by your size, let alone your skill with weapons, they will be in awe of you.
~ Amy Jarecki, Rise of a Legend
There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years, " Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen.
~ Teresa Flavin, Jet Black Heart
I was tempted to tell my father the truth, but perhaps it was better to let him go on believing that Vincent was depraved, a pervert of some kind, a child abuser. If Dad believed he'd invited a creature from myth and legend to cross his threshold, he'd have to rethink his entire concept of reality. I wasn't sure he was ready for that.
~ Mary Downing Hahn
More Facts for You and Jack 1) In the fifth century, St.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
White Buffalo Woman
~ Mary Pope Osborne
The statue of the mighty Greek god stared down at Jack.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Loki was a shape changer and a trickster. He could turn into animals like fish, horses, and falcons. At times, Loki helped the gods, but his tricks also made them angry.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
You may be wondering: Could Ella Fitzgerald explode your liver? She could not.
~ Mary Roach
C'era una volta uno spirito malvagio dalle sembianze di una gigantesca volpe a nove code. Con il solo movimento delle sue code, la volpe poteva provocare frane e maremoti. Per far fronte a quello spirito, la gente invocò l'aiuto dei ninja. Uno solo di quei ninja, a costo della propria vita, riuscì a imprigionare lo spirito. Quel ninja era il Quarto Hokage.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
The property was crisscrossed with pathways that made no real sense. The rumor was that Ellingham followed one of his cats and had a stone path made along any route it preferred to take because he felt "cats know best." The rumor wasn't true, but Ellingham enjoyed it so much that there was another rumor that he started the first rumor himself.
~ Maureen Johnson
Ellingham was in the mountains of Vermont. Its story was the stuff of legend, its reputation gold-plated, its illustrious graduates legion. Its story was long but can best be summarized thusly:
~ Maureen Johnson
Nathaniel Taggart had been a penniless adventurer who had come from somewhere in New England and built a railroad across a continent, in the days of the first steel rails. His railroad still stood; his battle to build it had dissolved into a legend, because people preferred not to understand it or to believe it possible.
~ Ayn Rand
Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
You mean the Chaos Emeralds?
~ Barack Obama
With his long hair, his hints of violence, and his promise of ecstasy, Dionysus was the first rock star.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
The Pueblo story is that everyone started out underground. People and animals, everything. And then the badger dug a hole and let everybody out. They climbed out the hole and from then on they lived on top of the ground. When they die they go back under. […] 'I always try to think of it that way,' he said, after a minute. "He had a big adventure up here, and then went home.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
But if a story has all the elements, it will be legend around here, where we love our neighbors so much we can't stop talking about them.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
But if a story has all the elements, it will be legend around here, where we love our neighbors so much we can't stop talking about them. It gets to be
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Ginseng hunters refer to the plant as chang-diang shen, "the root of lightning," because it is believed that it appears only on the spot where a small mountain spring has been dried up by a lightning bolt. After a life of three hundred years the green juice turns white and the plant acquires a soul. It is then able to take on human form, but it never becomes truly human because ginseng does not know the meaning of selfishness.
~ Barry Hughart