#legends

The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never recorded, her shiny twin-engine Electra never recovered. Earhart's legacy of inspiration is amplified because her adventure is perpetual. We don't think of her as dead; we think of her as missing. She is forever flying, somewhere beyond Lae, over that limitless blue horizon. ↗

— Josh Gates

#heroine #legends #inspirational

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

Wait." Amber jumped up wide-eyed. "Is she a—" "A ghost " I smirked. "Amber you're a necromancer in a show about raising the dead. What did you expect Eerie sounds produced by a computer and a few Hollywood actors in bad makeup Please don't tell me you've never seen a real ghost. ↗

— Jayde Scott

#beelzebub-girl #humor #jayde-scott #humor

The Hikayat belongs to ALL of us. To love. To share. To cherish. ↗

— ninotaziz

#legends #love

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

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#legends #myths #writing #inspirational

Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #heroes #legends #risk

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. ↗

— Kenneth Anger

#generation #legends #modern #mythology #nobody

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

#around #got #i #legend #legends

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races. ↗

— Emperor Hirohito

#depend #divine #emperor #false #japanese