Quotes About Legends

Myths arise from actual events, remarkable events that get talked about precisely because they are remarkable and which then get embellished in the retelling.

Dragons in History by Eleanor Lock (Border Press, London, 1999)

Memoirists are our contemporary mythmakers.

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.

Shiloah's compulsive need to act under a thick cloak of secrecy became the source of myriad legends. His friends used to joke that once he hailed a taxi. "Where to?" the driver asked. Shiloah answered: "It's a state secret.

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty. Myths and legends walk unseen amongst them, ignored, unrecognized. It was not always so.

There are stories to tell that are not songs.

Legends fight for their dreams and rest fight with their dreams.

We don't know how long his family had lived in Tarsus. Later legends suggest various options, one of which is that his father or grandfather had lived in Palestine but had moved during one of the periodic social and political upheavals, which, in that world, always carried "religious" overtones as well. What we do know about them is that they belonged to the strictest of the Jewish schools. They were Pharisees.

I'm going to check the world's best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn't even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated.

We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

Polycarp used to dazzle youngsters with tales of heroic worker strikes. He also relished telling stories about a man called Karl Marx, a name he pronounced as Kalu Mazi.

History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.

Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

Rabies has a lot in Common with vampirism." said Adam

Every place has its little superstitions, and everyone laughs at what the folk across the river think.

But those are just stories," I protested. He gave me an amused look. "Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.

Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.

Further, the legends of creation, of the tree of life, and of the deluge, mentioned in Genesis and also in Assyrian records, were well known to the Accadians, and from the conventional form of the tree of life, which in the most ancient pictures bears fir-cones, we may infer that the idea is an old tradition which the Accadians brought with them from their former and colder home