#legends

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#history #legends #on-fiction #nature

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? ↗

— John Adams

#christianity #fables #legends #religion #religion

The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#tragedy #urban-legend #urban-legends #dreams

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

— Usain Bolt

#come #legends #lot #me #my time

I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep. ↗

— Anna Sheehan

#legends #sleeping-beauty #young-adult #beauty

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#die hard #does #hard #legends #rarely

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

#architecture #art #culture #enduring #europe

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

— Hervey Allen

#legends #material #moulded #recorded

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

#black #bravery #coming #degrees #dinner

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

— Salman Rushdie

#facts #legends #make #more #reality