Top 1200 Urban Legends Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We should train kids in the music and dance of our legends. That's how we can keep the traditions alive.

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

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

So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

I love to be in New York. And I think anybody who's a designer, who says they're doing an urban collection, thinks about the streets of New York. I cannot do an urban collection thinking of Bangkok. Or Mexico. To me, it's totally instant, totally connected with what attracts me these days. But this resurgence of a modern, cool way of being dressed is something that stimulates me and is totally right for me. Even now I don't like to show something that is some futuristic utopia.

If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

The legends lie cradled in the seagulls call, and the promise they made are ground beneath the sadist's fall.

Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.

As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

I've talked to a lot of NBA superstars and legends about how I can improve my IQ offensively and defensively.

I'm an urban person.

The legends say, that Ares takes the form of his warriors and he visits their wives while they're away at battle.

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.

This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

For me, I put Mac Dre right up there with Biggie and 'Pac as legends who have since passed on.

'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

I'm working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who are people I've looked up to from a very young age.

There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts.

I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together. Imagine small strips of land between apartment buildings that have been turned into vegetable gardens, and urban orchards planted at schools and churches to grow food for our communities. The seeds of the urban farming movement already are growing within our reality.

I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.

I grew up listening to legends such as Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tony Bennett.

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!

I've kind of grew to enjoy fighting legends that I got into the sport watching and admiring.

Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller is talking about when he talked about putting a dome over Manhattan, which is to say an attempt at integrating all of these different technologies in a way that makes for a city that, without having an actual dome, thermodynamically manages the heat flow for that urban environment and therefore makes it so that it is a highly efficient machine for a living or a dwelling machine as he would have preferred in terms of thermodynamically optimizing it.

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.

The names, the legends, my heroes, the College Football Hall of Fame is a really amazing fraternity.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

I was very aware of 'League of Legends' because my brother plays it a lot, but I hadn't gotten the chance to play it before.

Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

I'm an urban act.

As an actor, it's crucial you keep your ears open, especially when you're playing opposite comedic legends in almost every scene.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

The only fighters to beat Manny Pacquiao have become legends themselves.

Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.

It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.

I've heard legends and maestros praise my voice. It's overwhelming. I'm a nobody who shouldn't be at the receiving end of the such comments, and I'm extremely humbled.

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

WWE offered me a legends deal. My lawyer looked at it, and it's basically illegal. It's not worth the paper that it's written on.

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

I've got to live up to some legends like Robbie Keane and Liam Brady.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.

The difference between the greats and the legends is their ability to focus for longer periods of time.

I'm not an urban person.

I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.