Quotes About Legends

I wonder how the dragons would tell it, if they could tell their own stories.

Alinsky offered this curious opening acknowledgment: "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history … the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer.

Legends simply don't live or die like men

There are many stories," Unlikely Worlds said, "but most follow similar patterns.

Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

Todo ser nuevo que encontramos viene de otro relato y es el puente que une dos leyendas y dos mundos.

For every person who died in the westward migration prior to the Civil War from Native Americans attacking, the stuff of American legends, thousands, maybe tens of thousands died from water holes polluted by cholera and typhoid … but that doesn't make for a good movie.

Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson.

Para acabar con la tradición judaica Leyendas hasídicas según la interpretación de un distinguido erudito El hombre no debe ser el promotor de su propia infelicidad; en realidad, el sufrimiento es fruto de la voluntad de Dios, aunque jamás alcance a comprender por qué Él disfruta tanto con ello

Caesar and The Honeymooners—two very different great comedians, Sid and Jackie Gleason.

Most national identities rest in part on a series of shared pseudohistorical myths.

Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness.

Dictionary of Native American Mythology

Simeone, De Boer, Van Basten - fantastic names to have worked with.

When I was younger my idols were Marco van Basten and Ruud Gullit.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

It was an absolute honour to fight in Vegas. Every fighter dreams of fighting at the MGM Grand. That's where so many legends have fought before and so many legends will continue to fight.

Legends are living, breathing entities in and of themselves. They are born, they feed, they grow, they can give birth to offspring, and they can die. Attention is what feeds a legend.

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.

I was listening to Chuck D, KRS, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, all the greats, studying them.