Myth Quotes · Page 12

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.

— Vera Nazarian

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

— Meg Cabot

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

— Christopher Moore

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

— John Fowles

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

— James Dyson

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

— Eldridge Cleaver

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Well, someone told someone and someone told someone else, you know how it is, that if you filled jugs with water and…

— Richard Yañez

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all…

— Edward de Bono

“...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it…

— John Geddes

It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up…

— Li-Young Lee

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about…

— Jacques Audiard

In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system…

— Matthew Yglesias

Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly…

— H. A. Guerber

“The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have…

— Kelli Jae Baeli

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and…

— Sallust

The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting…

— Brunonia Barry

“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year…

— Annie Besant

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in…

— John Cheever

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,…

— Karen Armstrong

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there…

— Charles de Lint

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

— Anonymous

“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”

— Stephen Fry

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

— Konrad Lorenz

Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

— Natalie Angier

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

— Northrop Frye

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

— Alan Watts

“If you are not a myth Whose reality are you? And if you are not reality Whose myth are you?”

— Sun Ra Arkestra

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

— Bertrand Piccard

“There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.”

— Allan Wesler

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

— Kim Hyesoon

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

— Janis Joplin

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

— Samuel R. Delany

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

— Clarence Thomas

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.

— Shel Silverstein

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

— Jo Nesbo

“Truth or myth, it is only for me to know. Come with me into the rich texture of Bizco's kingdom.”

— Maria Mitchell