Mythology Quotes · Page 7

If you want to change the world, help the women.

— Nelson Mandela

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

— Stephen Sommers

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

— Fred Kaplan

“That is — your friend?" "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”

— Madeline Miller

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Indian mythology and its characters have always fascinated me and I find the antagonists especially very interesting.

— Puneet Issar

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and…

— Barack Obama

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

— Joseph Campbell

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The pain in my heart was worse than anything I ever imagined. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think. All I could feel…

— Nely Cab

The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they…

— Jeremy Taylor

A lot of mythology surrounds British inventor Geoffrey Pyke. He supposedly made people come to his bedside to see his designs because…

— Jamie Hyneman

“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep…

— Scott Bedbury

I love Pushkar because of the Pushkar Fair, which happens every fall - it's this camel festival, with ornately-dressed camels, camel races.…

— Maneet Chauhan

Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with…

— Vangelis

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span…

— Michael Franti

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born…

— Helen Morales

Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them…

— Robert Graves

So many of the great detectives that we see on television now owe their origins to Sherlock Holmes. What was very exciting…

— Nina Tassler

“Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both…

— Rudolf Karl Bultmann

We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from…

— Bill Ayers

“The signs of the old flame, I know them well. I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down…

— Virgil

When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the…

— Bradford Cox

“We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that…

— Homer

Of course, the whole mythology of the world of 'It' is very attractive to me.

— Andy Muschietti

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

— Thomas Bulfinch

I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.

— Kamal Haasan

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

— Cyprian

“I want the next goddamn tyrant who tries to burn the past down to choke on the ash.”

— Elijah Stepanovich

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

— Bill Ayers

Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

— Anonymous

I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology.

— Guillermo del Toro

“IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE”

— Charleston Parker

“*to thor* Zeus had replied that he had pulled fluffballs of lint out of his bellybutton that were bigger than Asgard”

— Eoin Colfer

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

— Ray Bradbury

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

— Carl Jung

“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning”

— William Carlos Williams

I used to like Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology. All mythology!

— Kendrick Sampson

I was definitely drawn to the mythology of one man, one voice, and one guitar.

— Hozier