Quotes About Mythology

The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.

It's a god-eat-god world.

I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

People invent gods to explain their suffering.

In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil!

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

The great god Pan is dead.

Apollo?" I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred." A god named Fred?

may the gods be with you

You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

Ptah? son of ptooey? What is he god of spitting? i asked

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

If I've got the powers of a god, then why am I so..." "Lame?" Sadie suggested. "Shut up," I said.

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess.

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

In this day when God is often referred to as 'It' or 'She' or 'Goddess' for the sake of leveling, I must say I can't recall Satan ever being referred to as 'She.'

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.