Legend
That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses.
A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature.
Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable.
An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.
To tell or narrate, as a legend.
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Legend Quotations
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken
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
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
I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.
Freddie Mercury
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon
I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
Maynard James Keenan
Jackie Robinson is a true legend.
Sidney Poitier
But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.
Paul Gascoigne
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.
Judy Garland
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
Judy Garland
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
Jim Harrison
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
Sarah Bernhardt
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
Miles Davis
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
Miles Davis
A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
David Lee Roth
John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
John Legend
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
I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.
Britney Spears
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Jeanette Winterson
I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.
Denis Johnson
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Jean Arp
Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.
Ethel Merman
He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.
Mark Wahlberg
People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
Lorna Luft
My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
Lorna Luft
I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'
Mike Wallace
I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25.
Bobby Darin
I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.
Busta Rhymes
It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.
Frederick Soddy
Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.
Suzanne Fields
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Legend Translations
legend in Afrikaans is legende
legend in Dutch is volksoverlevering, legende
legend in Italian is spiegazione, leggenda
legend in Norwegian is legende, sagn
legend in Portuguese is legenda
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