12 Quotes on Legends
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
Author:
Tecumseh
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A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.
Author:
Edward Sapir
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.
Author:
Douglas Hyde
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They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.
Author:
Emperor Hirohito
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Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Author:
Helen Hayes
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If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Author:
Judy Garland
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All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
Author:
John Boorman
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Author:
Walter Bagehot
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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
Author:
Neil Armstrong
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Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
Author:
Kenneth Anger
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Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
Author:
Hervey Allen
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