Quotes about Legend

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says, Gilbert had objected. I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy. -Anne

Oh, but there are, Marilla," cried Anne eagerly. "I know people who have seen them. And they are respectable people. Charlie Sloane says that his grandmother saw his grandfather driving home the cows one night after he'd been buried for a year. You know Charlie Sloane's grandmother wouldn't tell a story for anything. She's a very religious woman. And Mrs. Thomas's father was pursued home one night by a lamb of fire with its head

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

One story is good, till another is told.

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

Refuse profane and old wives' fables.

They'll call me Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way'.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

If you are going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.[6