Legends Quotes

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

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.

All legends have a base in fact.

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

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.

Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I’m really too young to be feeling this old.

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

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.

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.

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

It's an honor to walk in the footsteps of a legend. As host I intend to honor the tradition of The Bob Hope Classic and have a great time blazing a new path.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

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.

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

Take new values: Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person.

You're a legend in your own mind.

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.

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

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

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

The pine is the mother of legends.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

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.

Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most talented writers of our Latin music.

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.

I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!

I wouldn't call it ["Wild Bill Hickok"] an urban legend, but I guess I'd call it a rural legend that the cowboy was always soft-spoken, mild-spoken, well-mannered.

That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?

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?

[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.

It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.

Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.

We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake and all the rest of it somehow gets into the picture.

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.

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.

If it's possible to be in a good situation replacing a legend, he's in a good situation.

To be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

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

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

Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.

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

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

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.

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

A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.