Top 100 A Legend Quotes
#1. We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it
Darren Fletcher
#2. SK La'Flare's a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s - - and he was, like, fully rapping. N - - s was on it.
Earl Sweatshirt
#3. I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.
Britney Spears
#4. Russell Means is quite a legend in the Indian community for what he's been able to achieve. It was a real honor to work with a guy who's been on the front lines of fighting for what he believes in.
Karl Urban
#6. Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.
Rex Harrison
#7. Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.
Peter S. Beagle
#9. We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#10. Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.
James Randi
#11. Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
#12. Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.
Justina Chen
#13. Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.
Bob Kane
#14. This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.
Nalini Singh
#15. Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
Bayard Taylor
#16. These people will never understand him! He'll be famous - a legend - I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future - there will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know his name!
J.K. Rowling
#17. I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music, and I'm not saying there isn't an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.
Brian McKnight
#18. To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!
Christopher Lee
#19. When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
Michelle Kwan
#20. I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.
Sonny Rollins
#21. Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future!
Livia Bitton-Jackson
#22. Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries ... endures for a reason.
Dan Brown
#23. Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.
They carried them to the flatlands
And they died along the way
But they built up with their bare hands
What we still can't do today.
Neil Young
#25. A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
David Lee Roth
#26. Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.
Sean Penn
#27. I wonder if that's a small price to pay for being a legend.
Stephen Chbosky
#28. How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
Tavis Smiley
#29. If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
Judy Garland
#31. Power is more than the punch. I get so much power and belief in myself from God, and from God the power passes through my legs, through my hips, up to my shoulders, through my arms, and into my fists ... I'm written to be a legend.
Naseem Hamed
#32. It isn't every day I get to meet a legend. Dan Cahill, I presume? - Dr. Tagamayer
Jude Watson
#33. When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend ... well, a legend, anyhow.
Don Rickles
#34. I went looking for a legend and found a lizard. A fascinating lizard, but a lizard just the same.
Patrick Rothfuss
#35. My people have a legend of the Dayslayer. It says that Artemis chose one of our own to be her personal guard. More beloved than any of her people, the Dayslayer has no known vulnerability. Once he's unleashed, his goal is destroy Dark-Hunters. (Spawn) So you're telling me he's the Bogeyman? (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
May Sarton
#37. Tell me a legend," he said out of nowhere, and he realised they were making stories of each other, or themselves.
Matthew Salesses
#38. I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me.
Bobby Heenan
#39. Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero
David Cameron
#40. The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend.
Rich Cohen
#41. Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
Barbara Mikulski
#42. Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most talented writers of our Latin music.
Juanes
#43. I'm a child of the Disney Renaissance, so the new classics are near and dear. I suppose this is a legend more than a fairy tale, but 'Mulan' is easily my favorite. Not only is it a fun, action-packed, beautiful movie, but it's so important for young girls to have.
Victoria Aveyard
#44. Avoid the Holy Grail, the heroic journeys, the pursuit of a legend
that is not the life of the bookaneer, who must keep his eyes on the ground while other book people live by dreaming.
Matthew Pearl
#45. But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.
Paul Gascoigne
#46. Jeff Foxworthy is a legend. Every time I see his moustache it reminds me to wax my lip and every time I hear his jokes it reminds me to wipe my ass.
Lisa Lampanelli
#47. I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
#48. Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.
Yolanda Adams
#49. I've heard of such a legend!' I gasped. 'A child descended from a union between Christ and Mary Magdalene!'
'Don't be so fucking stupid,' snorted Mons. 'There's hundreds of those!
Mark Gatiss
#50. Lady Gaga will dominate the charts next year. She let me listen to a couple of new songs, she is a legend.
Britney Spears
#51. Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.
Dick Trickle
#52. There are ledgers. Those I kill. Those I reward."
"There are legends. You used to be one."
"I am a legend."
"Dani's a legend. Not you."
"This Dani appears to matter to you."
"Always."
"Perhaps you had a funny way of showing it.
Karen Marie Moning
#53. My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I'm alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.
Petey Pablo
#54. If I'm watching my favorite boxer, and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend.
Nikki Sixx
#55. Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.
Keith Donohue
#57. Will I be remembered as the man who protected mankind from a powerful evil? Or, will I be remembered as a tyrant who arrogantly tried to make himself a legend?
Brandon Sanderson
#58. I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
Ralph Stanley
#59. But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story ...
David Clement-Davies
#60. My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.
James Burrows
#61. You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.
Bryce Wilson
#62. Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.
Dave Mustaine
#63. As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.
Rod Serling
#64. But what is a legend if not a story so great it has survived the retelling of countless generations?
Aminatta Forna
#65. At the end of the day, I wanna be a great ... a legend. I've been working hard.
Gorilla Zoe
#66. If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.
David Strathairn
#67. I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, and I'd think, 'I want to be a legend like that.'
Holly Holm
#68. If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
Usain Bolt
#69. Paolo Maldini is neither a legend nor a world class player!
Carlton Palmer
#70. The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
Bette Davis
#71. You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.
Joe Walsh
#72. A legend is who we become for a specific point in time.
Khalid Muhammad
#73. The right ingredients can create a legend.
Coco Chanel
#74. It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.
Mario Vazquez
#76. I think it's better to be a legend while ye're alive to enjoy it.
Mel Odom
#77. The Imperium made a solemn vow that if another Pulsar were to be born into our world," he continues, "that they would protect them at all costs in the hopes that a legend would arise again.
Giselle Simlett
#79. It's alleged that our scourge of God and punishment from heaven, Commissar Strelnikov, is Antipov come back to life. A legend, of course. And it's not like him.
Boris Pasternak
#80. Stories of the Virgin being succoured by a friendly palm tree had actually been a Christian tradition for centuries, and seem in turn to have derived from a legend told by the pagan Greeks, was blithely ignored - as, of course, it was bound to be.
Tom Holland
#81. Maybe the desire that burns behind this question is the desire to be real. And which is more real - a clod of dirt unnoticed at your feet, or a hero in a legend?
And maybe behind the desire to be real is simply wanting to be known.
To be held.
Benjamin Rosenbaum
#83. We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#84. They both offered Winter crisp salutes, but the expression on their faces made her uncomfortable. It was the look of Women meeting a legend. When did I become a legend?
Django Wexler
#85. The Greek religion explained that diffuse band of light in the night sky as the milk of Hera, squirted from her breast across the heavens, a legend that is the origin of the phrase Westerners still use - the Milky Way.
Carl Sagan
#86. You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."
Frederick Lenz
#87. If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Judy Garland
#88. Take new values : Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#89. As you become a legend in the game, you build more doubters than you build supporters. And that's fine. I think that comes with anything that's challenging. I think it even comes with sports. The older that Michael Jordan got, I think the more doubted he became.
Nelly
#90. Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
Don Rickles
#91. Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend.
Lee Brice
#92. See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.
Steve Irwin
#93. A legend is someone becomes immortal by being dead.
Adrian Ramos
#94. I belong in the refrigerator. Because the truth is, I'm just food for a superhero. He'll eat up my death and get the energy he needs to become a legend.
Catherynne M Valente
#95. When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.
Dan Fouts
#96. A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past."
"It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.
Diane Duane
#97. Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.
Billy Graham
#98. Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
John H. Alexander
#99. Will Graham, the keenest hound ever to run in Crawford's pack, was a legend at the Academy; he was also a drunk in Florida now with a face that was hard to look at, they said.
Thomas Harris
#100. Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face ...
Virginia Woolf
