Top 35 Old Myth Sayings

#1. 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

Old Myth Sayings #65305
#2. Rid yourself of the old myth, if it has been plaguing you, that money is not important. It is important - vitally important! It is just as important as the food it buys, the shelter it provides, the doctor bills it pays, and the education it helps to procure.

Venita VanCaspel

Old Myth Sayings #714887
#3. The old myth is true. We see our environment as a mirror to our self-image. If we think we are weak, everybody will appear like a threat. If we think we are strong, we will try to help everyone.

Gracia Hunter

Old Myth Sayings #1163775
#4. The old myth of unlimited growth alienates human beings from nature. To live sustainably we must respect nature and live by its rules. We must walk softly, leaving as small a footprint as possible.

Linda Mason Hunter

Old Myth Sayings #1717510
#5. If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.

Russell M. Nelson

Old Myth Sayings #46187
#6. Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.

Claude Vorilhon

Old Myth Sayings #744483
#7. The 5-year-old sees that Paradise correctly, not in technology but in the fairy story, in the great myths that control and guide our lives. And myth is meaning divined rather than defined, implicit rather than explicit.

George Sheehan

Old Myth Sayings #1869448
#8. It wearied Carter to see how solemnly people tried to make earthly reality out of old myths which every step of their boasted science confuted.

H.P. Lovecraft

Old Myth Sayings #746607
#9. Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no part of it.

Wilbur Smith

Old Myth Sayings #772138
#10. My mother turned out to be a Biblical Myth; from that part of the Old Testament where God gets really angry.

Simon R. Green

Old Myth Sayings #812765
#11. I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'.

Kumi Naidoo

Old Myth Sayings #928505
#12. 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

Old Myth Sayings #1312575
#13. One myth that has become established in the self-development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isn't true in all cases. Sometimes it takes a shorter time, sometimes a longer time, and sometimes old habits are so hard to break that new ones never take hold.

Gudjon Bergmann

Old Myth Sayings #1316035
#14. When gossip grows old it becomes myth.

Bill Vaughan

Old Myth Sayings #1325111
#15. The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.

William Monahan

Old Myth Sayings #1361838
#16. I don't know who started the myth that sheep are fluffy and white. They were more the color of an old mop and just as matted with dirt.

Connie Willis

Old Myth Sayings #1442901
#17. And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and eyes. We are half-baked compared to them. Allowed out of the kiln before we were fully done. The old aboriginal myth; the truth, there.

Philip K. Dick

Old Myth Sayings #1519509
#18. Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

Gerry Spence

Old Myth Sayings #1746563
#19. On the nights I stuffed myself full of myths, I dreamed of college, of being pumped full of all the old knowledge until I knew everything there was to know, all the past cultures picked clean like delicious roasted chicken.

Lauren Groff

Old Myth Sayings #1810459
#20. There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?

Bruce Lee

Old Myth Sayings #1866904
#21. Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

Emma Thompson

Old Myth Sayings #716619
#22. How old did they tell you I am?" she demanded, hurrying to match his pace.

Joel shook his head. "If my mother ever taught me anything, it was to never question a lady's age.

Deidre Huesmann

Old Myth Sayings #680745
#23. A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

Ernest Gaines

Old Myth Sayings #680700
#24. 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

Old Myth Sayings #471320
#25. I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

Diane Keaton

Old Myth Sayings #468367
#26. I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire - where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!

Catherynne M Valente

Old Myth Sayings #293287
#27. The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

Lewis Thomas

Old Myth Sayings #278402
#28. We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men are younger than old men; that they are better looking; that they are slimmer, stronger and more athletic; that they can hold a girl in more romantic fashion and speak more sweetly.

Isaac Asimov

Old Myth Sayings #265986
#29.
In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Brooks Atkinson

Old Myth Sayings #242793
#30. The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.

Virgil

Old Myth Sayings #228410
#31. The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Old Myth Sayings #203408
#32. If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?

Rick Riordan

Old Myth Sayings #114687
#33. When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Old Myth Sayings #89698
#34. I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits of the dead, brides and unwed youths, old men worn out by labour, and tender maidens with hearts still new to sorrow.

Homer

Old Myth Sayings #84835
#35. Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,' that it places dynamite at the foot of old error and levels its shrines and monuments. Contempt for the past surely accounts for a consistent failure to consult it.

Marilynne Robinson

Old Myth Sayings #14842

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