Best 228 quotes in «legends quotes» category

What's the good of a story that ain't got a happy endin'?" the girl demanded, crossing her arms. Leo considered. "Maybe it does have a happy ending. At least, when it's actually complete. I mean, this part of it is sad. But maybe something good will come from it still? I suppose you have to read all the legends together to know for sure, but I don't know all of them. This one is sad, but there might be a story out there somewhere to make it happy." The girl nodded. "I'd like to know that story someday.

When we allow great minds to sleep, we allow great things to sleep!

Who says that I am dead knows nought at all. I am that is, Two mice within Redwall. The Warrior sleaps Twixt Hall and Cavern Hole I am that is, Take on my mighty role... Look for the sword In moonlight streaming forth At night, when days first hour Reflects the north From o'er the threshold Seek and you will see; I am that is, My sword shall wield for me.

According to legend. Telford is so dull that the by-pass was built before the town.

Why should I not know what he's really called?" "Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever," Carver muttered.

Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively.

You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy.

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.

Your inability to do what you are noted for doing is a critical step to wading off your past glories of excellence!

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.

A legend - now I am like a unicorn.

Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?

And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly gifted Hippasus, discovered irrational numbers that he sent the poor fellow out on a raft to drown, initiating a venerable tradition of professors mistreating their graduate students.

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

At the end of the day, I wanna be a great...a legend. I've been working hard.

Because the Internets there, I have access to a lot of the legends, like Fela Kuti. I used to watch a lot of Fela Kuti videos, just to see how he performed. He inspired me a lot, actually, because he was a man of many words, many good words.

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.

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best.

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.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived.  He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener – I think more than anyone else.  He will be dearly missed, but always remembered.

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

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

He accepts his Personal Legend completely.

Hear it when i get biz for K-Von, I'm pledgin, died, on 104 Northern Boulevard corona queens legend

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.

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.

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by videogames, but I'm pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in 'Legend'.

I entered this ring Randy Orton, Legend Killer. When all was said and done, I left as Randy Orton, Legend.

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

If things go our way, you might see why I'm a legend. And if your daddy has a problem with that, he'll find out why I'm the Legend Killer.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

I happen to be a three-time former WWF Champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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.

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

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

I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.