Top 38 Old Legend Sayings
#1. There was still about them what had always reminded Magnus of an old legend he'd heard of the red thread of fate: that an invisible scarlet thread bound certain people, and however tangled it became, it could not and would not break.
Cassandra Clare
#2. In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'
Benjamin Graham
#3. There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.
Graham Greene
#4. Everything in life goes back to the basics.
Kron Gracie
#5. Old Castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed.
H.P. Lovecraft
#6. History always has a way of repeating itself and like in Nazi Germany 1930's ... those who have been given the divine privilege to protect humanity can never afford to turn blind to the evil in our world that destroys its children (Young or old).
Timothy Pina
#7. I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.
Jessica Pare
#8. I realised that by being with him I had become someone else, someone I didn't recognise.
Chloe Thurlow
#9. To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!
Christopher Lee
#10. God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.
Francis Of Assisi
#11. A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.
Mary Grand
#12. John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
John Legend
#13. Near Tokyo lived a great Samurai warrior, now old, who decided to teach Zen Buddhism to young people. In spite of his age, the legend was that he could defeat any adversary.
Paulo Coelho
#14. The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.
Nick Flynn
#15. Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused
hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.
Charles De Lint
#18. Even when I'm old and my eyes, hands and legs fail me ... please give me the strength Lord, to let my heart, mind and lips worship and praise you for all your goodness!
Timothy Pina
#19. This is where it starts. When they write the legend, this will be the first page. Some old monk will go blind illuminating this page, Makin. This is where it all starts. I didn't say how short the book might be though.
Mark Lawrence
#20. You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.
John Legend
#21. I know what I've done for music, but don't call me "a legend".( ... ) A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
Miles Davis
#22. The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.
C.S. Lewis
#23. Boy," said Druss, his eyes cold, "think well about this venture. For make no mistake, you cannot
stand before me and live. No man ever has." The words were spoken softly, yet no one disbelieved the
old man.
David Gemmell
#24. Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I'm really too young to be feeling this old.
Drake
#25. It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.
Rodney Dangerfield
#26. Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!
Mark Twain
#27. It's so weird to say this about the icon and legend that is Cher, but she's like an old girlfriend. We still talk all the time. She's an incredible person personally and professionally, giving such amazing advice, stories for days, been there done that. She's one of a kind.
Christina Aguilera
#28. The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.
Henry Watson Fowler
#29. Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie Kennedy
#30. If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.
Nuno Bettencourt
#31. Once upon a time ... " "In the beginning was ... " That's the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives' tale blues riff begins with "Woke up this mornin' ...
Steven Tyler
#32. This isn't really death,' Tyler says. 'We'll be legend. We won't grow old.' I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you're thinking of vampires.
Chuck Palahniuk
#34. The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.
J.B. Priestley
#35. I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#36. I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in love so hard your soul is sucked out through your eyes, and that's the moment of death. It's a lovely, strange old Jewish legend.
Neil Gaiman
#37. A legend is an old man with a cane ...
Miles Davis
#38. The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart ... To go alone ... into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth
it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.
Thomas Wolfe