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Quotes About Legend

Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.
~ Joe Dugan
Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.
~ Roberto Calasso
We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.
~ Art Hoppe
When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.
~ Tony Wilson
My mother turned out to be a Biblical Myth; from that part of the Old Testament where God gets really angry.
~ Simon R. Green
At that time Math son of Mathonwy could not live unless his feet were in the lap of a virgin, except when the turmoil of war prevented him.
~ Sioned Davies
Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.
~ Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
Qui procul hinc, the legend's writ,The frontier grave is far away—Qui ante diem periit:Sed miles, sed pro patria.
~ Sir Henry Newbolt
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory
~ It is his day.
and then the threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and a hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished away the hand with the sword in the water.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
Legends can live and breathe only on verbal terrain
~ Siri Hustvedt
I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.
~ Rick Riordan
How I love David Bowie.
~ Lady Gaga
I love Prince, thought he was super dope.
~ Deon Cole
Duncan Edwards was a colossus - Bobby Robson
~ Max Arthur
The whole world lived inside the gourd, the earth a green and blue pearl like the one the dragon plays with.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
It's simple, really, Alaric Wulf said. Lucien Antonescu is the prince of darkness. Jon nodded. Yeah, he said. We know. He's got a castle and stuff.
~ Meg Cabot
It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.
~ Meg Cabot
In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.
~ Meghan Daum
The stone is called the Rose of Lucifer, or Lucifer's Bane," the senator explained with a smile. "Have you heard the story?
~ Melissa de la Cruz
A new Dragon's Egg?" asked
~ Melissa de la Cruz