Legends Quotes - Page 16

• I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hurt, Writing, Patriotic

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

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• Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist in 1837; rather it was his evolutionary views that allowed him, retrospectively, to understand the complex case of the finches.

  Frank Sulloway

  Science, Views, Evolution

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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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• 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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• He accepts his Personal Legend completely.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Personal Legend

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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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• It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.

  Luis Suarez

  Football, Thinking, Guy

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• My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

  John Legend

  Piano, Track, Way

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• If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Children, Fall, Mean

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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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• Hear it when i get biz for K-Von, I'm pledgin, died, on 104 Northern Boulevard corona queens legend

  Kool G Rap

  Queens, Rap, Boulevard

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• ...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is no reliable information about his life or teachings. Most stories about him are as apocryphal as the story that his coffin hangs forever in mid-air "between heaven and earth," like the bodies of ancient sacred kings.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Jesus, Kings, Real

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• Legends are not born - they are created.

  Ricky Pierce

  Basketball, Born

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• I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Thinking, Sky

  Source: www.naylor.net

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• Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)

  Kathryn Lasky

  Brave, Desperate

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.158, Scholastic Inc.

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• A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that even if one holds miracles to be possible, one need not hold legends to be impossible! There are other factors, literary and historiographical ones, that might lead a critic to conclude that even though miracles can happen, it does not appear that in this or that case they did.

  Robert M. Price

  Simple, Miracle, Religion

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.116, Wildside Press LLC

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• I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.

  Tim Schafer

  Years, People, Support

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• The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Osiris, Order

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• I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.

  John Shelby Spong

  Easter, Moving, Religion

  John Shelby Spong (1994). “Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity”, Harpercollins

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