Quotes About Mythology

Every country has a founding mythology. For Americans, it starts with our first president's youthful encounter with a cherry tree and refusal to tell a lie. Mr. Trump would do well to find inspiration in that story, which goes to the heart of what makes America different - and our foreign policy effective - around the world.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

It sounds kind of farfetched, yet I can't tell you how many people have had this syndrome... the 'Old Hag Syndrome.' Apparently, there's this little old lady who comes into your room at night, sits on your chest and tries to suffocate you. You can Google her - she'll pop up. She's out there.

Co-writing the 'True Blood' comic is a dream come true both as a performer on the show and as longtime comic fan. It's a real privilege to build on the rapidly growing 'True Blood' mythology.

When people hear the name 'Marco Polo,' they tend to think of a map or explorer. Very few people know the true story of Marco Polo, and it's so much more compelling and exciting than the mythology.

I love Pushkar because of the Pushkar Fair, which happens every fall - it's this camel festival, with ornately-dressed camels, camel races. But the reason I truly love this city is the Hindu mythology behind it.

The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

Where flies Korabas, there shall be T'iam.

He sensed wry amusement in Hood. ' One day, even the gods will answer to death.

Don't hold to any faith. Even legends die.

Prometheus did as he was bidden, and this is the reason why some people have the forms of men but the souls of beasts. The forms of men but the souls of beasts.

If asked the Minotaur might say that he thinks gravity pulls harder at night. That the whole earth, on its wobbly axis, whips quicker through a sunless sky. It sure feels that way. But nobody is going to ask.

The Minotaur comes and goes. He has for centuries. And there have been many bridges. The Minotaur pauses, as he walks, midway through the covered bridge that serves, in more ways than one, as the entrance to Old Scald Village. He rests his heavy snout against one of the wooden trusses. The Minotaur likes this portal, both ingress and egress, a breach in the terribly human construct of time.

But it wasn't Helen's face alone that launched the Greeks' celebrated thousand ships. It was the lure of booty.

Ethiopians have gods with snub noses and black hair, Thracians gods with gray eyes and red hair

Coffee and humanity both sprang from the same area in eastern Africa. What if some of those early ape-men nibbled on the bright red berries? What if the resulting mental stimulation opened them up to a new way of looking at old problems, much as it did Europeans? Could this group of berry nibblers be the Missing Link, and that memory of the bright but bitter-tasting fruit be the archetype for the story of the Garden of Eden?

Men were worshipped in Caradore.

He could see the great cloud of fear, shot with red and black, that was the god-form of Madragore, created by men, sustained by men.

The serpent has the potential to be used for good or evil. It represents the creative force or building blocks of the universe, which is dualistic.

Legends say that Foy banished the cockatrice, but in essence he just hid from her.

Are you me, or an earlier version of me, or are you all the Valravens who have ever lived since the day Caradore fell to the Magravands? There is only one, he thought.