Legends Quotes

Start with familiar fairy tales or Bible stories or old folk tales or ancient myths and legends. You can tell them straight, or you can add your own twists. If it's a story kids already know, they'll try to correct you if you stray, but that's part of the fun. You can make each story your own.

Scientific knowledge brought into being ever more wonders. The legends of my ancestors were shamed into silence. No longer did one have to meditate for years to be able to speak with someone across the sea. Some Germans had stretched a sea-cable from England to India! And wires of this sort were proliferating from here to there all across the face of the earth. Now the whole world could observe the actions of a single person. And one could watch the activity of the whole world.

The urban legends and the irrational behavior has begun.

They're living legends, man. We have separate sets and we don't actually play with them until toward the end of the set. We do a hymn together. Those guys have got to be in their 80s. But just being on the same stage with them is amazing. They sound great, man. They're singing the real gospel, the way gospel used to be. Their voices are pure and fine tuned like the finest wine you would ever want to taste in your life.

They are all ultimately promoting the sport, each with a distinct style. These guys are creating the legends and myths that will drive our sport for the next decades. People will look back at these movies and chart the evolution of our sport.

I'm disappointed but privileged to have had the opportunity to work with one of the true legends of the British game.

We've got all these living legends in the bass world and we're all going to play as well at the end of the night, ... We just wanted to bring a really unique event to the Myrtle Beach area. This would be an instantly sold-out show in Los Angeles or New York or any major city, and I think it's cool that the people at CCU had the vision to bring this here.

Contrary to popular belief, everyone cannot be replaced. Legends live on forever. I don't think the No. 3 will ever be driven by anyone else.

We're very excited about the Local Legends. We have the first 12 plaques on the wall and we'll be announcing the rest of the inaugural class in the very near future.

I think urban legends, whether true or not, are a pretty sensitive gauge of people's frustrations over things like gasoline prices. The situation in Iraq is frustrating to both pro and anti-war folks, and in some of the other realities of modern life you look for someone to blame, and you start at the top.

It's a phenomenal piece of work by the cops, ... It's something that legends of crime busters are made of. It just really is.

On a random winter day, I got a call from one of the legends in coaching. I was very flattered.

Those guys are legends in South African sport and it is fantastic for me to have done something that they have done.

We have had over the years lots of legends and superstars. Over the last few years we have had performers like Kenny Chesney and Brad Paisley who are monster names at this point. We have been able to catch these people when they have been Performer of the Year and are breaking out.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

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.

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.

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

Winning, to be included with all those legends, would be a great honor.