263 Quotes About Legends
- Author Titus Lucretius Carus
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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- Author Alan Lee
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I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)
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- Author Alan Lee
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I have a very clear memory of my first encounter with myth, sitting in a mobile library and travelling, at the same time, with Theseus on the road to Athens. By the time we'd met, and disposed of, the pine-bending giant Sinis, I'd become completely entranced. Within a few months I'd read every book on myths, legends and folklore in our two nearest libraries.
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- Author Ambrose Bierce
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SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
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- Author C.J. Cherryh
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Oh, man,' Azdra'ik said. 'This is what our eldest saw. This is what our legends say. Who could know, but us?
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- Author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I am weary of your quarrels,Weary of your wars and bloodshed,Weary of your prayers for vengeance,Of your wranglings and dissensions
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- Author Emory R. Frie
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At the end of all things, there was no song;So the legends lived on, until all that remainedwere the stories she must tell.
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- Author Mehmet Murat ildan
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What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!
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- Author Richard Powers
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Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.
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