Legends Quotes

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.
Judy Garland

Lonely, Why, Around

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Helen Hayes

Truth, Hard, Die

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.
Neil Armstrong

Long, Remember, Born

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
Tecumseh

Dreams, End, Die

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Salman Rushdie

Reality, Sometimes, Become

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
Usain Bolt

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
Lauren Bacall

Past, Nothing, Present

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.
Walter Bagehot

Great, Made, Popular

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.
Rob Sheffield

Death, Black, American

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.
Kristen Wiig

Love, Movies, Through

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.
George Strait

Trying, Same, Young

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'
Chris Evans

Love, Movies, Big

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.
Edward Sapir

Age, History, Made

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
Bill Walton

Respect, Nothing, Person

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.
Wesley Morris

Live, Black, Two

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
Hervey Allen

Facts, Material, Recorded

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.
Douglas Hyde

Power, Away, Language

If I should get selected into the Hall of Fame, I'd be able to say 'thank you' to all the legends that are in the Hall of Fame. And also say thank you to my teammates, and also to all the fans. It's going to be like a dream come true.
Jerry Rice

True, Dream, Able

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
John Howe

History, Art, Everything

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.
Yvonne Strahovski

Work, Big, Lucky

I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be in a soap. Working with Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden - they're legends in their own lifetimes aren't they?
Sophie Thompson

Time, Thought, Working

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
John Boorman

Great, Human, Story

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
Kenneth Anger

America, Read, Nobody

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.
Emperor Hirohito

False, Divine, Superior

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