Legend Quotes - page 2

On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend. (Thucydides)
Legends should stay legends; otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend. View quote
Ian McDonald
In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me. View quote
Steven Gerrard
Legend remains victorious in spite of history. View quote
Sarah Bernhardt
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend. View quote
Pauline Hanson
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed. View quote
Len Wein
The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption. View quote
Julian Jaynes
Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by videogames, but I'm pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in 'Legend'. View quote
Marie Lu
Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America. View quote
Rick Riordan
Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country. (Annie Jacobsen)
Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak. View quote
Celia Rees
Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line. View quote
Stewart O'Nan
Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend. View quote
Aleksandar Hemon
Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime. View quote
Rex Harrison
He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend. View quote
LaToya Jackson
But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend. View quote
Paul Gascoigne
Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same. View quote
Janice Dickinson
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 the end of time. View quote
Grazia Deledda
Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands... View quote
John Flanagan
A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl. (Kathryn Lasky)
My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going. View quote
Big Sean
I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25. View quote
Bobby Darin
I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend. View quote
Bruce Boxleitner
If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out. View quote
David Strathairn