Mythology Quotes · Page 9

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

— Kamal Haasan

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

— Thomas Bulfinch

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

— Bill Ayers

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

— Elijah Stepanovich

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Puneet Issar

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Andy Muschietti

“There are different kinds of love you experience in life. Loving someone differently doesn't mean loving a person less than you love…

— Nely Cab

“I am caught. You caught me. Not the other way around. From the very first day. And from the very first day,…

— Amanda Bouchet

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular…

— Joseph Campbell

The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but…

— Rudolf Bultmann

When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number…

— Martin Scorsese

I wish, to be honest, that there were more myths about me. I wish I was more of a mythical person, and…

— Lights

“Yet the great “Why?” always at the center of the little “whats” and “hows” that makes religions into mythologies is often stronger…

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. He is either on a horse or driving…

— Don DeLillo

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name…

— Henry David Thoreau

I see the main problem as a spiritual one, not a resource problem, or a problem with this or that government, but…

— Alberto Villoldo

“In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. You become mature when…

— Joseph Campbell

“Sitting down on the stairs, Cheyenne watched Behr through the slats in the railing. She liked what she saw. Covered in a…

— Brandi Salazar

I'm really proud of all the stuff we've built with Green Lantern - from Larfleeze to the different corps. The universe has…

— Geoff Johns

“His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi’s kiss I could taste the red burn of chili…

— Lani Wendt Young

I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I…

— Roger Zelazny

I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't…

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

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

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Eoin Colfer

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

— Charleston Parker

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

I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA.

— Amish Tripathi

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

— Bel Kaufman

“Lesson Number One in controlling a man: find his weakness. Every man had one.”

— Rachel Firasek

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

— Germaine Greer

I'm like Loki in Nordic mythology: one day I'll be a woman and the next day a snake.

— Yung Lean

“Chiron looked surprised. “I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.”

— Rick Riordan