Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“You can’t move forward with your life until you make peace with your past.” — Lisa Carlisle Copy Share Image
We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become. — Christine Downing Copy Share Image
I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me. — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.” — Ashley Madau Copy Share Image
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest myths is that education cannot flourish with regulation. Another myth is that wherever the state sponsors… — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
“For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
“There is a king of natural selection that takes place among myths. Those that capture something essential to the human condition can… — Philip Freeman Copy Share Image
We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
“Scholars have produced as many definitions of myth as there are myths themselves. This book will discuss various definitions of myth as… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
“Myths are supposed to teach us something, but what’s the life lesson in this sad tale of Orpheus? No good deed goes… — Augustus Hill Copy Share Image
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was… — Celsus Copy Share Image
“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths. I am African American — by which I mean, a descendant of slaves,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypathia of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
