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Legends Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land…
- It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong;…
- Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those…
- I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic…
- And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years,…
- After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in…
- I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend…
- After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.
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- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is… — Francis Bacon
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- 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
- In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I… — Alan Ball
- Legend remains victorious in spite of history. — Sarah Bernhardt
- 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… — Usain Bolt
- A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time. — Usain Bolt
- If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal. — Usain Bolt
- Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends. — A. S. Byatt
- I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they… — Ernest Hemingway
- Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be… — James A. Baldwin