Quotes About Myth

I've heard the name before: Anubis. An Egyptian name. The name of a god.The god of the dead.

A story just isn't a story without a dragon.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

You're living in a delusion, based on your legendary father.

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

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

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

always wrapped in the mystery of the Merovingian age,

Existe un antiguo mito que sostiene que contar historias puede curar enfermedades o salvar; sin historias, viviríamos un presente viejo. Dame la mano, Camila, ven conmigo y te contaré alguna.

Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.

If you are having conversations with people about fried chicken, watch out. Their stories are steeped in lore and myth. Regular people fry their bird with a rabbit foot in their pockets, with their uncle's secret cooking hat perched on their heads. Not only do they have special pans - cast-iron skillets top the list - but they have the special pot. You know, the one their great, great, great grandmother forged from volcanic rock.

It is not by chance that there exists in Haiti the myth of the zombi, that is, of the living-dead, the man whose mind and soul have been stolen and who has been left only the ability to work… The history of colonization is the process of man's general zombification. It is also the quest for a revitalizing salt capable of restring to man the use of his imagination and his culture

Different versions of a true story

Listen,' someone whispers into my ear. 'Listen to me.' Am I dead? 'Listen,' the voice whispers. 'In some countries, you kill a monster when it's born. Other places, you kill it only when it kills someone else. Other places, you let it go, out into the forest or the sea, and it lives there forever, calling for others of its kind. Listen to me, it cries. Maybe it's just alone.

But who's ever safe? Down below us are the kind of people who walk armed into churches and movie theaters and through libraries, blast fevers into federal buildings, and build bombs out of things they bought cheap at a hardware store. What kind of myth is it, that people like them are keeping the rest of us safe?

We're all going to die, but most of us won't go out in glory. Here's what matters, though, for men: not living, but living on in legend.

Famous people aren't magic. Despite their thoughts to the contrary.

know anything about the Holy Grail, and I have to admit he ran with the ball.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.