Lore Quotes

57 quotes by 52 authors

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local… — Cleveland Abbe
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires. — Alan Ball
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it. — Mario Batali
A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that in a public meeting the… — Truman G. Madsen
The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people's sports lore. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What… — Dean Radin
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. — Colin Firth
Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I have as much… — Norval Morrisseau
But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit… — John Hume
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long… — Hart Crane
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer. — Newell Dwight Hillis
Lore is my favorite kind of story. Because it's not only historical, it's a lie everyone knows is a lie but tells anyway. I love… — Kevin Sampsell
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo… — Karin Lowachee
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should… — Baron de Montesquieu
I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what… — Nalo Hopkinson
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are… — Washington Irving
All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me. — Wilfred Owen
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the… — Stephen Leacock
The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore. — Lady Frieda Harris

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