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Quotes About Legend

There are no truths, Coyote," I says. "Only stories.
~ Thomas King
We have also an Indian legend which relates that a courtesan named Bindumati, turned back the streams of the river Ganges. [56:5] We see then, that the idea of seas and rivers being divided for the purpose of letting some chosen one of God pass through is an old one peculiar to other peoples beside the Hebrews, and the probability is that many nations had legends of this kind.
~ Thomas William Doane
The Chinese dragon 'long' is essentially a force of the good.
~ Thorsten J. Pattberg
You're a legend 'cause you write about me.
~ Tia Williams
Even more shocking, champagne wasn't discovered by the French. It was the British who first learned the secret of making wine sparkle and first launched the commercial trade in champagne wine with bubbles. The legend of Dom Pérignon was manufactured only in the late nineteenth
~ Tilar J. Mazzeo
Messi is the best in the world - there is no question about that.
~ Angel Di Maria
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Ronaldo is a fantastic player, he scores a lot of goals and is really complete, but what Messi does nobody else can or ever will do.
~ Jordi Alba
I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of a certain age, I went because a friend was hired by Berry that very day to be part of the legend's backup band.
~ Elvis Mitchell
The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.
~ Jo Nesbo
Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses and cheekbones. They are cousins of the Berbers of North Africa. Some legends say the Tuareg are the decedents of an ancient Roman legion that disappeared into the desert two millennia ago.
~ Richard Engel
Numbers are not important. Muttiah Muralitharan is a legend with 800 wickets. I don't even know if I can play the number of matches he has played. It was nice to get noticed but frankly numbers don't attract me much.
~ Ravichandran Ashwin
Scoring goals is nice, but I'm nowhere near Platini. I hope I can get closer to him.
~ Antoine Griezmann
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
~ Anish Kapoor
Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and they have to stop and think; there's just not that much left.
~ Tom Junod
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.
~ Michael Korda
Camelot, located nowhere in particular, can be anywhere.
~ Norris J. Lacy
Danny North grew up surrounded by fairies, ghosts, talking animals, living stones, walking trees, and gods who called up wind and brought down rain, made fire from air and drew iron out of the depths of the earth as easily as ordinary people might draw up water from a well.
~ Orson Scott Card
I'll tell your story,' said Ender. 'Then I will truly live forever.
~ Orson Scott Card
Then he told them another story and it was this story.
~ Cormac McCarthy
La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.
~ Cormac McCarthy
SönmüÅŸ aÅŸklar?n fani ete kaz?nm?? efsaneleri.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Well, I'll tell ye, they ain't no more heroes.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Let us use our magic and enchantments to conjure up a woman out of flowers." … Math and Gwydyon took the flowers of oak and broom and meadowsweet and from these conjured up the loveliest and most beautiful girl anyone had seen; they baptized her with the form of baptism that was used then, and named her Blodeuedd. "Math Son of Mathonwy," from The Mabinogion, translated by Jeffrey Gantz
~ Cornelia Funke