Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
All writers all people have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
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.
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.
Asleep in lap of legends old.
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.
People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed.
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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.
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.
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
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.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
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