Myth And Folklore Quotes & Sayings

Thinking for yourself is still a radical act — Nancy Kline

Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world. — Liz Williams

As Moses threw whatever in his hand on the ground,
so does hand should do what it can to earn miracles. — Toba Beta

Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood. — Alice Hoffman

Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the faeries may literally attack you, on the spot. — Alexei Maxim Russell

The only periods, I suspect, when a man feels captain of his soul are those when he has not the slightest need of such an organ. — Geoffrey Household

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me. — Margaret Halsey

Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its creatures. Once by air, he thought, and now by water. — Mordecai Richler

I have a very clear memory of my first encounter with myth, sitting in a mobile library and travelling, at the same time, with Theseus on the road to Athens. By the time we'd met, and disposed of, the pine-bending giant Sinis, I'd become completely entranced. Within a few months I'd read every book on myths, legends and folklore in our two nearest libraries. — Alan Lee

Your friend is your needs answered. — Kahlil Gibran

Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer? — Andy Stanley

I've been actively engaged with mythic imagery ever since I picked up that Rackham book, but it really came into focus for me when I moved from London to the country. As I walked the extraordinary landscape of Dartmoor, I looked at the trees and the rocks and the hills and I could see the personality in those forms ... then they metamorphosed under my pencil into faeries, goblins and trolls. After Alan and I published "Faeries", he moved on from the subject of faery folklore to illustrate Tolkien and other literary works ... while I discovered that my own exploration of Faerieland had only just begun. In the countryside, the old stories seemed to come alive around me; the faeries were a tangible aspect of the landscape, pulses of spirit, emotion, and light. They "insisted" on taking form under my pencil, emerging on the page before me cloaked in archetypal shapes drawn from nature and myth. I'd attracted their attention, you see, and they hadn't finished with me yet. — Brian Froud

A great deal of energy is spent daily on pushing the Russian e-commerce boom along while managing all aspects of growth and development along the way. — Maelle Gavet

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living. — Zora Neale Hurston

When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it. — Winston Churchill

I'll watch golf while I work out. I'm your average golf fan. — Terry O'Quinn

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier. — Sarah Zettel

He'd known her for five months, but felt like a lifetime for how attracted he was to her. — Katie Reus

Cabinet is a conscious, explicit attempt to portray the Doctor himself as myth. "He's a mischief, a leprechaun, a boojum," says one character, bookseller and collector of incunabula, Syme. "The Doctor is a myth. He's straight out of Old English folklore, typical trickster figure really."29 Neither part of an ongoing narrative, nor specifically located within the series' past, Cabinet is in a position to challenge the portrayal of the Doctor. — Anthony Burdge, Jessica Burke, Kristine Larsen

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. — Diana Wynne Jones