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Legends Quotes - Page 3

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.3

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

Pablo Picasso, Gary Tinterow, Susan Alyson Stein, Magdalena Dabrowski, Christel Hollevoet (2010). “Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, p.110, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.89, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

Stewart O'Nan (2008). “The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy”, p.363, Anchor