Myths Quotes

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

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.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

Magic is at the core of myths.

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.