Legends Quotes - Page 21

• Beating a legend is a very good feeling, but internally I was processing the realization that I could compete with anyone.

  Tommy Morrison

  Feelings, Realization, Good Feeling

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• The reason why I play around with the word legend is because this is my 7th CD and a lot of artists don't even make it that far. Many artists don't even pass three or four.

  Ginuwine

  Artist, Cds, Play

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• I just feel like I'm an artist that still has set a standard for artists that come up to follow and be like...So, yeah, I guess I'm a legend somewhat, I guess in my own right, but I still got a long ways to go.

  Ginuwine

  Artist, Long, Way

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Lying, Civilization, Humanity

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• You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.

  Bryce Wilson

  Thinking, Space, Trying

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.

  Christian Wiman

  Emotional, Lenses, Work And Life

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends.

  Jock Stein

  Past, Celtic Park, Want

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• Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever the code term "red" is used in the Old Testament, it denotes the Hyksos dynasty. Connected to the Order of the Garter, is the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, formed in 1818. Aditionally, legend has it that the senior members of the Merovingian dynasty of France (founders of the Knights Templar) had birthmarks in the shape of a red cross.

  Michael Tsarion

  Senior, Order, Knights

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• I want to be a legend, like Celine Dion.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Want, Celine

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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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• By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

  Ian Hacking

  Philosopher, Armchairs, Accustomed

  Ian Hacking (1983). “Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• [Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Country, War, Home

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• The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Destruction

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• I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Fate, Long, Paddling

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• Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

  John Berger

  Soul, Alive, Cicadas

  John Berger (2012). “G. John Berger”, p.197, A&C Black

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• If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?

  Judy Garland

  Lonely, Home, Order

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• Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

  Margaret Fuller

  Past, Dust, Voice

  Margaret Fuller (1856). “At home and abroad”, p.229

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• no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.

  Molly Ivins

  Horse, Texas, Progress

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.198, Vintage

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• Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Change, Enemy, Coping

  Elizabeth Janeway (1981). “Powers of the weak”, William Morrow & Co

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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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• 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 don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

  Barbra Streisand

  Progress, Work In Progress, Feels

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• Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Lying, Reality, Stories

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• no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

  Winifred Holtby

  Strong, Defeat, Truth Is

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, People, Goes On

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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