Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth — Smokey Robinson
Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs… — Thomas Piketty
When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power. — Hans Ree
Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that. — Jorge Valdano
Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough. — Eric Chaisson
Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems… — Laurence Overmire
This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you… — Anne Rice
Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and… — Jean O'Leary
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted. — Kurt Vonnegut
The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa'… — Euvin Naidoo
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the… — Sarah Zettel
Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the… — Walther von Brauchitsch
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us… — Claude Vorilhon
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in… — Benjamin De Casseres
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history. — Frank Waters
It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of… — Vernon Johnson
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something… — Nicholas Meyer
Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they… — James H. Cone
The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names… — Robert Montgomery
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. — John Boorman
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth… — John Boorman
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. — William Irwin Thompson
What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth.… — Victor Serge
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. — Harold Geneen
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. — Irwin Edman

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