Quotes About Legend

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

Old wives' tales have hurt cats. They're not true! Who are those Old Wives?

Do you suppose it's true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?

Odin One Eye," she said as she dialed. "The god of war and magic.

in Plutarch's account of the birth of Alexander the Great, mother Olympias got pregnant from a snake; it was announced by a bolt of lightning that sealed her womb so that her husband Philip could not have sex with her.

Up telephone poles, Which rear, half out of leavage As though they would shriek Like things smothered by their own Green, mindless, unkillable ghosts. In Georgia, the legend says That you must close your windows At night to keep it out of the house The glass is tinged with green, even so, As the tendrils crawl over the fields. The night the Kudzu has Your pasture, you sleep like the dead. Silence has grown oriental And you cannot step upon the ground... ALL: Kudzu by James Dickey

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

knights." Prianius was christened, and made a duke and knight of the Round Table. So Prianius

their unsullied honor became the foundation of the myth.

As the pearl is achieved through the stimulus of finely comminuted particles of silicon and is destined to be worn about the soignée necks of some of the better carcasses in town, we take Czgowchwz out of the thrall of time and cultivate a legend.

Myth doesn't mean something untrue, but a concentration of truth.

What about Odysseus?' said Kiaya Khátún. Marthe turned away, and moved to the door. 'He is not a man,' she said. 'He is Chaos, a mythical bird with a name, but no body; agreeable only to the eye of the mind.

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

Magrathea itself disappeared and its memory soon passed into the obscurity of legend. In these enlightened days, of course, no one believes a word of

Have you met Thor? He makes thunder.

When the team excavated, they uncovered the shattered ruins of a fortress, over fifteen centuries old, with massive walls and eight towers, matching the description in the Koran. They also figured out what had happened: The constant removal of water from the watering hole undermined the fortress, which one day collapsed into a sinkhole and was buried by drifting sands. The legend recorded in the Koran was based on a real event.

The myths of the White City, the City of the Monkey God, a Casa Blanca or Kaha Kamasa, have a similar arc: There was once a great city in the mountains struck down by a series of catastrophes, after which the people decided the gods were angry and left, leaving behind their possessions. Thereafter it was shunned as a cursed place, forbidden, visiting death on those who dared enter.

Hey. you' re blocking my paragraph. ~ the legends of zelda the minish cap

As I turned toward writing, which is partially intellectual in its function, but is primarily intuitive and emotional in its execution, I turned towards that which was numinous and emotional in me, and that was the legend of King Arthur Asleep Under the Hill. It stood for all that I'd had to give up in order to understand what I'd had to give up.

Is there light in Gorias?

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.