Legends Quotes

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

  Usain Bolt

  Motivational Sports, People, My Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dirk Nowitzki will be better than Larry Bird. I'm a legend killer.

  Mark Jackson

  Bird, Killers, Larry

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• Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!

  Vernor Vinge

  Years, Flying, Pilgrim

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.595, Macmillan

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• Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Spite, Remains

  Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”

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• Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option - legend.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  God, Christian, Jesus

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• Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer. There’s a legend behind every legacy, there’s a blueprint behind every legend.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Blood, Sweat

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

  Lauren Bacall

  Past

  "The moments that last". Interview with Susie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Facts, Sometimes

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• I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

  Freddie Mercury

  Stars, Rocks, Singers

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• That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

  Tim Tharp

  Sound, Greater, Left

  Tim Tharp (2008). “Knights of the Hill Country”, p.182, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

  Neil Gaiman

  Truth Is, Enough, Used

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• Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

  Jim Harrison

  Crazy, Fall, Voice

  "Fictional character: One Stab". "Legends of the Fall", www.imdb.com. December 23, 1994.

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• We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

  Bennett Madison

  Doe, Possession

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• The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

  Bette Davis

  Inspiration, Coffins, Way

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• You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

  Isabel Allende

  Fame, Storyteller

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• I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

  Ralph Stanley

  Long, Thankfulness, Enough

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• Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Truth, Roots, Literature

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• A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Mind, Band

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• Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Growing Up, Men

  "Look" Magazine, (JFK memorial issue), November 17, 1964.

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• The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Believe, Years, Cities

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• All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Games, Guy

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• I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Beautiful, Giving, Style

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• Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Rumor, Literature, Nobody Knows

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• According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

  Grazia Deledda

  Christmas, Dust, Body

  "1,500 Greetings And Quotes For All Occasions. Sayings, Phrases And Best Wishes For Birthday, Mother's Day, Easter, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Wedding, Thanksgiving And More". Book by Emmie Marina Brunswick, April 30, 2014.

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• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  Tavis Smiley

  Growing Up, Guy, Shadow

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