Quotes about Legends

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. Votes: 7

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. Votes: 6

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness. Votes: 4

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded. Votes: 4

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time. Votes: 4

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember. Votes: 4

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.' Votes: 4

Legends are not born - they are created. Votes: 3

I'm The Legend Killer, Shawn! Why? 'Cause I kill Legends! Votes: 3

Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff. Votes: 3

Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren) Votes: 3

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one. Votes: 3

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past. Votes: 3

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful Votes: 3

Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting. Votes: 3

I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door. Votes: 3

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. Votes: 3

Facts are fine, fer as they go ... but they're like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now - they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories. Votes: 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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Legends like Jim Murray at the 'Los Angeles Times' and Shirley Povich at the 'Washington Post' were the most beloved guys at their papers. They'd write a cherished column for 30 years, and that was it. There was nothing else to do, no higher job to attain. Votes: 3

Experience is a great teacher. Votes: 2

Legend remains victorious in spite of history. Votes: 2

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? Votes: 2

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend. Votes: 2

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything. Votes: 2

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. Votes: 2

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds. Votes: 2

I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me Votes: 2

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. Votes: 2

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town. Votes: 2

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis. Votes: 2

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. Votes: 2

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child. Votes: 2

But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend. Votes: 2

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed. Votes: 2

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player. Votes: 2

It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.' Votes: 2

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend. Votes: 2

I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels. Votes: 2

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you. Votes: 2

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time. Votes: 2

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from. Votes: 2

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races. Votes: 2

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Votes: 2

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em. Votes: 2

American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends. Votes: 2

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live. Votes: 2

There's no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if 'Man V Food' is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose 'Man V Food Nation' is the legacy. Votes: 2

Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses and cheekbones. They are cousins of the Berbers of North Africa. Some legends say the Tuareg are the decedents of an ancient Roman legion that disappeared into the desert two millennia ago. Votes: 2

One of the most popular games to watch on eSports is 'League of Legends,' a game that blends role-playing, managing resources and shouting at your friends. Again, if I had another thousand words, I might be able to scratch the surface of this game, but all you need to know is that gamers love to play it, and even more of them love to watch it. Votes: 2

Asleep in lap of legends old. Votes: 0

History is written by the legends. Votes: 0

All legends have a base in fact. Votes: 0

The pine is the mother of legends. Votes: 0

Myths and legends die hard in America. Votes: 0

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Votes: 0

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever. Votes: 0

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful, Votes: 0

Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies Votes: 0

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore. Votes: 0

The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends. Votes: 0

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years. Votes: 0

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. Votes: 0

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time. Votes: 0

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'. Votes: 0

If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways? Votes: 0

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...) Votes: 0

If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends. Votes: 0

Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them. Votes: 0

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out. Votes: 0

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. Votes: 0

There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something. Votes: 0

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish. Votes: 0

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories. Votes: 0

Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos. Votes: 0

As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me. Votes: 0

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters. Votes: 0

There are fun nights, there are crazy nights, and then there are those nights that make men legends. Votes: 0

Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon. Votes: 0

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. Votes: 0

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda. Votes: 0

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. Votes: 0

The legends lie cradled in the seagulls call, and the promise they made are ground beneath the sadist's fall. Votes: 0

It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy. Votes: 0

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling. Votes: 0

Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries. Votes: 0

So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is. Votes: 0

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with. Votes: 0

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends. Votes: 0

The legends say, that Ares takes the form of his warriors and he visits their wives while they're away at battle. Votes: 0

Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths. Votes: 0

If you do something extraordinary for your customer you will never be forgotten. Customer service heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Votes: 0

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends. Votes: 0

I'm working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who are people I've looked up to from a very young age. Votes: 0

I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them. Votes: 0

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither. Votes: 0

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. Votes: 0

Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray. Votes: 0

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Victory is in our hands! It's time for our legends to begin! Don't tremble, and don't you dare cry! Come on, show some energy! Votes: 0

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars. Votes: 0

This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We build our understanding of the emotional world through the myths and legends of our culture. We are all, in part, made of fairy tales. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts. Votes: 0

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Will they remember us, Aravan? Will Mankind remember us at all?" ... Mayhap, Gwylly, mayhap. Mayhap in their legends and their fables. Mayhap in naught but their dreams. Votes: 0

I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books. Votes: 0

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies. Votes: 0

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. Votes: 0

Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers. Votes: 0

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway. Votes: 0

All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory. Votes: 0

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it. Votes: 0

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together. Votes: 0

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good. Votes: 0

One should not inquire too closely where ancient legends about the gods are concerned; many things which reason rejects acquire some color of probability once you bring a god into the story Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie. Votes: 0

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love. Votes: 0

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves. Votes: 0

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated Votes: 0

Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends. Votes: 0

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.... Votes: 0

We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0