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Quotes About Legends

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.
~ Mumia Abu-Jamal
Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know. All the wonders and failures, all the champions and villains, all the legends and ideas and revelations of a culture last forever in its books.
~ Susan Orlean
As with most of the legends surrounding the Templars, some of the conjecture about the fate of individuals seems logical, while other suggestions appear to be rather implausible and fabricated for an audience hungry for mysteries and conspiracy theories.
~ Susie Hodge
That is what I love about golf, you can go play somewhere where all the greats have played.
~ Lee Cattermole
I started chess around the age of seven. I was inspired by the game, but soon legends like Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Anand and many other world champions captivated me.
~ Anish Giri
Del Piero is like Raul in Spain, he is the number one.
~ Fabio Cannavaro
a space of time is a great breeder of myths.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
She understood now why ancient peoples turned their heroes into constellations.
~ Neal Shusterman
the stacks keeps you on your toes. Besides which, there are rumours of ape-men living down here; I don't know how the rumours got started, but this place is more than somewhat creepy when you're on your own late at night.
~ Charles Stross
There can never be another Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar and Mohammed Rafi they are in different league.
~ Anu Malik
My favourites are Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar and Mohammed Rafi. They are the four legends. I have worked with them in hundreds of songs.
~ Bappi Lahiri
I'm a huge fan of Clyde Frazier and Earl Monroe.
~ Baron Davis
I love monsters.
~ Misha Green
Brett Favre was one of my favorite players. Joe Montana, obviously, was great.
~ Matt Leinart
My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.
~ Alvin Lee
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
~ Tecumseh
People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way – even when these stories concern their own native countries.
~ Thucydides
One may learn a great deal about a people by the stories they tell of others.
~ Timothy Zahn
Legends of the Ancient Giants As is a common characteristic of ancient myths, Aztec stories of the Quinametzin echo similar stories told in other parts of the world. In Genesis 6:4, its ancient Israeli writers tell us about the Nephilim, a race of giants said to have walked the earth prior to the Great Flood.
~ Tom Head
We all listened to and loved the Stones, the Beatles, Cat Stevens, Nina Simone, Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt, Aretha, sixties Motown, Andreas
~ Carly Simon
Some of the more sought-after signers are, in no particular order, presidents, military heroes, sports icons, actors, singers, artists, religious and social leaders, scientists, astronauts, authors, and Kardashians.
~ Carrie Fisher
Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are." "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?" "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.
~ Cassandra Clare
Monsters are entirely mythological, sir, like spirits, werebeasts, and competent bureaucrats.
~ George R.R. Martin
Too many peoples have traveled back and forth, and too many legends and tales have mingled.
~ George R.R. Martin