Myth Quotes

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

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I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

Life Believe My Life Happy Hungry Myth Poorest Being Just Poor Really Times

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

Paul Di Filippo

Long Fantasy Beast Myth Sentient Staple Been Fiction

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.

What makes Batman and what makes other superheroes work is the myth that when life is at its lowest, and when you need a hero, a hero swings down and helps you.

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Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

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The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

American Myth Standardized Least Largely Created Themselves

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Arthur M. Schlesinger

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Jackie Chan is a myth.

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Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

Willard Van Orman Quine

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It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

Truth Difficult Myth Times Separate

I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.

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Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.

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It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

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In the 'era of colorblindness,' there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have 'moved beyond' race.

Michelle Alexander

Nation Desire Race Beyond Cling Era Fanatical Moved Myth Nearly

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

Think Living Edge Myth Crap Pile I Think

When you talk about Puyol, you speak of a myth of football.

Aymeric Laporte

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