Legends Quotes

• Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Legends
  • Daylight
  • Tread

• The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Important
  • Picture
  • Legend

• 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.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Stills

• When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

  

  Michelle Kwan
  • Figures
  • Remembered
  • Skating

• The best thing about it is that she Sophia Loren is the most normal person, and I have the utmost admiration and love for her. I know that she is an icon and an absolute legend, but as a family member, the most beautiful thing is that she is really, really normal.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Beautiful
  • Members
  • Admiration

• I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Deals
  • Clients
  • Infamous

• Lollapalooza is a place where young upstarts become legends, and legends return to claim their fame.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • Place
  • Fame
  • Lollapalooza

• At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

  

  Michael Scott
  • Heart
  • Legends
  • Grain

• A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

  

  Caroline Llewellyn
  • Truth
  • Fiction
  • Around

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

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Past
  • Present
  • Legends

• If things go our way, you might see why I'm a legend. And if your daddy has a problem with that, he'll find out why I'm the Legend Killer.

  

  Randy Orton
  • Problem
  • Legends
  • Killers

• There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Protest
  • Legends
  • Daft

• Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

  

  Eiichiro Oda
  • Future
  • Past
  • Legends

• I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Community
  • Forever
  • Organization

• I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

  

  Neil Oliver
  • Story
  • Look
  • Scotland

• We were born ahead of our time. Don't forget that the riot-grrl scene had a lot to do with making The Slits a legend, and that didn't happen until the early '90s. We couldn't get together before then, because the legend hadn't been built yet. In the 2000s, we've become bigger than life in that way. It's become really important for The Slits to be here now, but idealistically, we should have done it in the '90s.

  

  Ari Up
  • Important
  • Together
  • Forget

• There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Simple
  • Might
  • Events

• After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Truth
  • I Believe
  • Discovered

• So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

  

  William Stafford
  • World
  • Way
  • Happens

• As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Devil

• I entered this ring Randy Orton, Legend Killer. When all was said and done, I left as Randy Orton, Legend.

  

  Randy Orton
  • Said
  • Legends
  • Randy

• I'm mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn't really grow up with them, but I think it allows me to sort of analyze them in a way that's kind of interesting.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Interesting
  • Superhero
  • Grow Up

• I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Obsession
  • Legends
  • Folklore

• I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends.

  

  Alan Lee
  • Characters
  • Legends
  • Myths

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