Quotes About Heroes And Legends

#1. Integrity safeguards love, and love makes family life rich and zestful-now and forever.

Russell M. Nelson

#2. Just another game he played in a world where heroes were legends and honor was a myth.

Michael J. Sullivan

#3. Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime ... But mourn the inward wreck we feel As hoary years depart, And Time's effacing fingers steal Young feelings from the heart!

Robert Montgomery

#4. All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

Paul Dickson

#5. There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is
right here, right now
or you're someplace else.

Gay Hendricks

#6. Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.

Sharon Olds

#7. In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot.

Gregory Benford

#8. Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

Umberto Eco

#9. Come gather 'round hardy men of the steppes and listen to my tale of heroes bold and friendships fast and the Tyrant of Icenwind Dale of a band of friends by trick or by deed bred legends for the bard the baneful pride of the one poor wretch and the horror of the Crystal Shard.

R.A. Salvatore

#10. Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

Kobe Bryant

#11. God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.

Philip Appleman

#12. The heroes from the legends weren't necessarily the polite types. Killing people and fancy talking didn't always go together, old Jarel had once told him.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.

Luther Standing Bear

#14. There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

Bob Dylan

#15. I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

David Axelrod

#16. Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Beethoven will make films... all legends, all mythologies and all myths, all founders of religion, and the very religions... await their exposed resurrection, and the heroes crowd each other at the gate.

Abel Gance

#17. I'm so busy and there's so much going on, that the gym or a workout can't be a last minute thought, like, 'I have nothing to do today I'm going to go to the gym.' Now it's, 'When am I going to find time to work out tomorrow?'

Alison Sweeney

#18. You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. The man is always the last to know when
Cupid has struck him
-Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress

Sabrina Jeffries

#20. there were no more living legends, and thus the young grew up knowing they would never become heroes themselves.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#21. Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.

Tyson Fury

#22. Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

Evan Meekins

#23. Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren't really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?

Maggie Stiefvater

#24. ~ A taste of Heaven on earth!" "THE ENCHANTING LEGENDS OF SHILOH MANSION:The Young King!" ~

DeBorrah K. Ogans

#25. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Babe Ruth

#26. Heroes are remembered but legends never die.

Babe Ruth

#27. For me, success was finding the courage to be true to myself, and holding on to a sense of humor along the way while refining my craft. Sean

Jewel