Quotes about Legend

Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.

Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

Frank Sinatra will go on forever.

In my own present day I am a legend, alive but more than alive, dead but more than dead. I'm a framed head that hangs at the backs of classrooms, of the girls exalted enough to have classrooms: grimly smiling, silently admonishing. I'm a bugaboo used by the Marthas to frighten small children

Early testimony supports historical claims. The closer the time between the event and testimony about it, the more reliable the witness, since there is less time for exaggeration, and even legend, to creep into the account.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

Or call up him that left half toldThe story of Cambuscan bold.

What never yet was heard in tale or song, from old or modern bard, in hall or bower.

You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it.

To believe in the heroic makes heroes.