Quotes About Myth

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

Call me Dolores. Like they do in the stories.

Here, in this book, I will try to show that the guru is actually like the horizon. A horizon is apparent—a line where earth and sky appear to meet. But in reality, they never meet. There is only an illusion of an ending point, a point of reference where we can stand and measure and assess. In this way, the guru is like a horizon between wisdom and method, myth and truth, science and faith. D

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Who killed the girls? The dragon? Or their father?

I've been a little sad that so many girls love Tommy so much. Hello!?! Tommy Hazard and Prince Charming - neither one exists!

The evolutionary epic is probably the best myth we will ever have.

the elves and dwarves were considered the greater races, the humans and blighters the lesser ones. He said the shorter-lived races would be thriving when the others were gone and just legends. In his mind, the great races think only of themselves, the lesser live and build for their children and grandchildren's world.

E]very community insists on what Professor G. J. Renier calls "the Story that must be told" about its own past, and where scholarship decays, myth will crowd in.

The Tower of Babel didn't work out well for anyone involved, but like the bulk of the Bible, that story was just a fairy tale, and a pretty boring one at that.

In the effort to deny from whence we came," Baldwin declared, "we've had to make up a series of myths about it.

B'gwus is famous because of his wide range of homes. In some places, he's called Bigfoot. In other places, he's Yeti, or the Abominable Snowman, or Sasquatch. To most people, he is the equivalent of the Loch Ness monster, something silly to bring the tourist in. His image is even used to sell beer, and he is portrayed as a laid-back kind of guy, lounging on mountaintops in patio chairs, cracking open a frosty one.

We tended to imagine Canada as a kind of vast hunting preserve convenient to the United States.

He never has seen Seattle; he says he's crazy to; he says he doesn't believe there is any such place or any state called Washington that has a town named Walla Walla.

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings at a single bound—look, up there in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman!

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

There ain't no such animal.

Cheerleaders know that pyramids were not built in Egypt.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen.

Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck.

Refuse profane and old wives' fables.

If smoking is so bad for you, how come it cures salmon?

In the time when Dendid created all things,He created the sun,And the sun is born, and dies, and comes again.