Legend Quotes
416 quotes by 336 authors
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
— Francis Bacon
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a…
— Russell Baker
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
— James A. Baldwin
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Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.
— Usain Bolt
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
— Usain Bolt
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that…
— James A. Baldwin
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Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to…
— William Croswell Doane
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Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that life has reserved…
— Paulo Coelho
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Great genetics are not necessarily a precursor for success in the game. Brazilian Legend Pelé has often said that soccer stars are not born. Without…
— Pele
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde.…
— Francis Bacon
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People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
— Lorna Luft
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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise…
— Hans Arp
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Hear it when i get biz for K-Von, I'm pledgin, died, on 104 Northern Boulevard corona queens legend
— Kool G Rap
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According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until…
— Grazia Deledda
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...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is…
— Barbara G. Walker
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I happen to be a three-time former WWF Champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room.
— Mick Foley
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The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the…
— Roderick Murchison
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Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a…
— Bart D. Ehrman
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The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions sees what they…
— Hassan Nasrallah
Who Wrote These Legend Quotes
336 authors contributed a total of 416 Legend Quotes, led by these top contributors: