Legends Quotes - Page 10

• No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

  Wallace Stegner

  Yarn, Fiction, Facts

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

  Ann Zwinger

  Fall, Cutting, Engineering

  Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.192, Big Earth Publishing

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• Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Laughter, Land

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

  Michael Moorcock

  Mean, Mad, Who We Are

  Michael Moorcock (2016). “Mother London”, p.274, Hachette UK

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• We're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend," and we see ourselves as some sort of god. That we can walk around the earth deciding who will live and who will die and what will be destroyed and what will be saved. But the fact is we're just a bunch of primates out of control.

  Paul Watson

  Thinking, Conceited, Mind

  "Sharkwater". Documentary, September 11, 2006.

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• So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Teacher, Buddhist

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• Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Children, Hero, School

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• We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education.

  Kanye West

  Book, Kids, Long

  Interview with DJ Booth, djbooth.net.

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• Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains, Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims, The will is much stronger than the flesh, And it only gets stronger when you going through duress, Imagination is the factory that makes legends... Close Your Eyes and dream B.I.G. like Faith Evans.

  Jay Electronica

  Dream, Coffee, Rap

  "Close Your Eyes". Song by Jay Electronica, Lucy Liu and The Bullitts, April 2011.

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• In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.

  Dan Barker

  People, Religion, Stubborn

  Dan Barker, Richard Dawkins (2008). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.299, Ulysses Press

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• Rev Run is a living legend of Hip-Hop, who's still making great music, but now he's also the dad to an amazing family, ... This series takes us inside his world. It's a kind of a reality 'Father Knows Best' with comedy, heart, Hip-Hop and drama-all under one roof at Run's House.

  Tony DiSanto

  Running, Dad, Father

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• Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Tasks

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• One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Long

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• He accepts his Personal Legend completely.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Personal Legend

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• The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias, and to fight for our dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Believe

  "The Alchemy of Pilgrimage". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 14, 2014.

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• The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Real

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• Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Men

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• There is only one legend. That's me

  Roberto Duran

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• Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody

  Roberto Duran

  White, Black, Call Me

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• To be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

  Nalini Singh

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.35, Penguin

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• When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

  Michelle Kwan

  Skating, Figures, Remembered

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Before Death, Living Legends

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• Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Communication, Reality, World

  "Alphaville". www.imdb.com. 1965.

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• The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Important, Fierce, Beast

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Urban Legends, World, Internet

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