Legend Quotes

416 Legend quotes by 321 unique authors

I am a Christianâ€¦so that I do not expect â€˜historyâ€™ to be anything but a â€˜long defeatâ€™ â€” though it contains (and in a legend… — J.R.R. Tolkien
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in… — C.S. Lewis
Faeries are fallen angels," said Dorothea, "cast down out of heaven for their pride." "That's the legend," Jace said. "It's also said that they're the… — Cassandra Clare
I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I… — Mercedes Lackey
But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten… — Robert Jordan
Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better… — Henry Rollins
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from… — Charles de Lint
We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend. — Bennett Madison
I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that same sense of… — Marie Lu
But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, couldâ€™ve immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe… — Richelle Mead
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and… — David Gerrold
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is… — Bernard Malamud
Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity… — Keith Douglas
And history becomes legend and legend becomes history. — Jean Cocteau
I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not. — Sonny Rollins
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye — Jack Handey
Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist… — Frank Sulloway
Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it has been an… — Johnny Weir
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. — Daniel Bruhl

Who Wrote These Legend Quotes

321 authors contributed a total of 416 Legend Quotes, led by these top contributors: