Quotes About Legends

#1. For someone like me who's lived in the same place her whole life - I mean, I lived three blocks from where I was born, and I met my future husband in the eighth grade - there are always family stories and legends passed down.

Susan Straight

#2. I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.

B.o.B

#3. There was no script, but I said, 'I'm in, regardless' and was committed to Legends before I saw a single page.It was a lovely surprise to find so much meat on the bone.

Wentworth Miller

#4. Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

Kenneth Anger

#5. For every person who died in the westward migration prior to the Civil War from Native Americans attacking, the stuff of American legends, thousands, maybe tens of thousands died from water holes polluted by cholera and typhoid . . . but that doesn't make for a good movie.

William R. Forstchen

#6. I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.

Tim Schafer

#7. Looking at the big things that had shaped the nation. Battlefields, factories, declarations, revolutions. Looking for the small things. Birthplaces, clubs, roads, legends. The big things and the small things which were supposed to represent home. I'd found some of them. I

Lee Child

#8. I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

Neil Oliver

#9. Religions are all the same ... Based upon legends and fantasies

Thomas Jefferson

#10. There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts.

Venus Williams

#11. I'm The Legend Killer, Shawn! Why? 'Cause I kill Legends!

Randy Orton

#12. The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it's really fun, and you know we're always going to give you a satisfying ending.

Adam Savage

#13. Some legends say that Hera's breast milk sprayed across the sky and created the Milky Way. I don't know. That seems like a whole lot of solar systems from just one squirt

Rick Riordan

#14. Honestly, I think there's a cycle to the popularity of fantasy and fairytales that usually coincides with times of unrest or hardship in our own world. By retelling these legends or immersing ourselves in fantasy realms, we can safely explore the very real, very day-to-day darkness of our own lives.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. When Hobbits first began to smoke is not known, all the legends and family histories take it for granted; for ages folk in the Shire smoked various herbs, some fouler, some sweeter.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.

Mike Norton

#17. Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.

Nahoko Uehashi

#18. All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

John Boorman

#19. I am something new, and in this old world steeped in legends, ancestors, and what came before, something new is something very special.

Pierce Brown

#20. Information and inspiration are everywhere ... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

John Howe

#21. Mythos is the sum total of the early historic and prehistoric myths which preceded the logos. The mythos includes not only the Greek myths but the Old Testament, the Vedic Hymns and the early legends of all cultures which have contributed to our present world understanding.

Robert M. Pirsig

#22. 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

#23. Those on Whom Legends Are Built Are Their Legends

Lisa Chaney

#24. Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

A.S. Byatt

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

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#26. Then you'll die in the midst of trying to realize your Personal Legend. That's a lot better than dying like millions of other people, who never even knew what their Personal Legends were.

Paulo Coelho

#27. I didn't think they even existed. They're in stories, in legends, and we have Dragon Eye jewels and dragon threads and dragon this and that, but no one ever seriously thought these things came from actual dragons. That would have been... ridiculous. - Skulduggery

Derek Landy

#28. He's humanoid, he's hominid, he's an aberration, he's abominable; he'd be legendary, if there were anyone left to relate legends.

Margaret Atwood

#29. Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.

Neil Strauss

#33. It's been said that legends are those who shape change into greatness; shaping change is one of the hallmarks of genius.

Julian Pencilliah

#34. We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about [music] education.

Kanye West

#35. I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

Ziggy Marley

#36. There are fun nights, there are crazy nights, and then there are those nights that make men legends.

Tucker Max

#37. A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

Caroline Llewellyn

#38. I'm mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn't really grow up with them, but I think it allows me to sort of analyze them in a way that's kind of interesting.

Eric Kripke

#39. I believe legends and myths are largely made of truth..

J.R.R. Tolkien

#40. I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

Justin Kirk

#41. Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.

Charlie Campbell

#42. Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.

Don Yaeger

#43. But, forasmuch as all favourite legends must be associated with the affections, and as many more people fall in love than commit murder - which it may be hoped, howsoever bad we are, will continue until the end of the world to be the dispensation under which we shall live - the

Charles Dickens

#44. If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.

Christine Feehan

#45. A thousand stories had painted cities in his mind, the great cities of kings and queens, of thrones and powers and legends, and Caemlyn fit into those mind-deep pictures and water fits into a jug.

Robert Jordan

#46. Do I think it's great that we have a celebrity system where some people matter and some people don't? No. But do I think we'll always create icons and legends? Yeah, I probably do.

Eve Ensler

#47. The legends which offer a race their sense of pride and history eventually become putrid.

Michael Moorcock

#48. Humankind has always had access to Shadow
dreams, nightmares, legends, inspiration, Humanity taps into Shadow every day. And when we die, we pass into Twilight.

Erin Kellison

#49. If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

Chief Dan George

#50. Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends
of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.

Brandon Sanderson

#51. When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#52. Some of the stuff I get the scripts for, I read it and I'm like, "Wow." We're doing some crazy stuff on this show [Legends of Tommorow]. it's going to be amazing.

Franz Drameh

#53. Passion and Carrier will never coincide for most of the people. If it does, they are considered to be legends!!

Nelson Jack

#54. The Ojibways have great respect for the Bear. According to their legends, in the distant past the Bear had a human form and was in fact an ancestor of the Ojibways. Therefore he understands the Indian language and will never attack or fight any Indian if he is addressed properly.

Norval Morrisseau

#55. What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

Damien Chazelle

#56. For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.

Hannah Arendt

#57. Legends have it that once a Scot covers a lass with his plaid, his intentions are spoken.

Vonnie Davis

#58. I spy the eyes before me to be those of the celestial warrior the legends of men call Michael.

Jon Steele

#59. Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.

Mary Renault

#60. Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Akon

#61. For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

Vanilla Ice

#62. But history has been adapted here, re-spun to tell Jan's tale: the story of a boy caught up in a world of change and opportunity, trickery and wonder. A story inspired by a city and its legends.

Joanne Owen

#63. What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'

Chris Evans

#64. The futuristic city on 'Legends Walking's cover rejects any connection with the contemporary setting of 'Changer.' It was as if every effort was made to keep readers of 'Changer' from finding this stand-alone sequel.

Jane Lindskold

#65. Shamans enter the dream world of sub-consciousness to wrestle with demons and rally angels. They return with tales of their encounters which become the myths and legends of their communities.

Jeff Rasley

#66. According to Native American legends, dogs with different-colored eyes could see both heaven and earth.

James Rollins

#67. There are so many legends about wolves, although mostly they are legends about the way men think about wolves ...

Terry Pratchett

#68. Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. He's built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.

Don Yaeger

#69. As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

Brock Yates

#70. I love gaming, I'm actually more of a nerd than a metal head and if you see me at shows chances are I'm by our merch table playing league of legends on my laptop or playing super Nintendo or Playstation through an emulator. My Nintendo pretty much raised me.

Mike Powell

#71. Legends had been written about less.

Deborah Blake

#72. There are definitely aspects of that kind of stuff. The whole team [of Legends of Tommorow] gets thrown together. They don't really know each other like that. They haven't worked together before.

Franz Drameh

#73. We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible.

Albert Camus

#74. It is always easier to blame gods or legends than it is to face our own mistakes.

Susan Dennard

#75. The pine is the mother of legends.

James Russell Lowell

#76. A gang of unpredictable ruffians by day who turned to enthralling storytellers after dark. I would sometimes join them, and listen for a great part of the night to some of the finest fairy tales and most romantic legends it has ever been my fortune to hear.

Russell S. Bonds

#77. As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

Douglas Hyde

#78. Well, legends are many-legged beasties, aye? But they generally have at least one foot on the truth.

Diana Gabaldon

#79. It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'

G-Eazy

#80. But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.

Robin McKinley

#81. The world turned, and new stories rose up, and the legends of the old days faltered a little, or turned themselves in their course to keep up with the lives of their people, and the lives of great-grandchildren of those they had first known.

Robin McKinley

#82. In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

G.K. Chesterton

#83. Legends simply don't live or die like men

Paul Levitz

#84. If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.

Baldur Von Schirach

#85. 'Legends Walking' was the first of my books to go to a second printing based on strong initial orders, but much of that printing never found its audience.

Jane Lindskold

#86. I'm going to check the world's best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn't even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

Nalo Hopkinson

#87. Today's stories are tomorrow's legends.

Gaddy Bergmann

#88. There are legends. You used to be one." She says coolly, "I am legend.

Karen Marie Moning

#89. There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.

John Jackson Miller

#90. Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

H.P. Lovecraft

#91. Legends and folklores are the memories of ancient civilizations.

Ninotaziz

#92. Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.

Upton Sinclair

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

Babe Ruth

#94. We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.

Stephen Jay Gould

#95. we live by legends, and not by bread alone.

Dmitry Glukhovsky

#96. I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.

Steve Lillywhite

#97. I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. ( ... )

Alan Lee

#98. Is there a difference between being the midwife of truth, or the midwife of legends?

Amin Maalouf

#99. Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination

James Christensen

#100. This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy lake." She smiled. "Lancelot was a knight. You're a viscount. The bar is higher.

Tessa Dare