Legion Quotes:

Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

- Markus Zusak

topic: Stories, Pockets, Legion, Prove To Me, Immense

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (2011). “The Stand Vol. 5: No Man's Land”, p.46, Marvel Entertainment

topic: Kings, Names, Legion

We have been very clear that Israel has an undeniable right to self-defense and that the rockets that it has faced coming out of Gaza incessantly, the tunnels that are legion and are being used to infiltrate into Israel are very legitimate security concerns, for which they have an obligation - against which they have an obligation to act.

- Susan Rice

topic: Legion, Obligation, Concern

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

- Tacitus

source: "The Annals & The Histories".

topic: Power, Legion

Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.226, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Devil, Watches, Legion

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

- Augustus

source: Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars

topic: Giving, Legion, Give Me

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.98, Xist Publishing

topic: Devil, Legion, Deals

There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.

- Rudyard Kipling

source: Rudyard Kipling (2011). “The Seven Seas”, p.52, House of Stratus

topic: Splits, Detachment, Legion

Senator Sanders, of course, has campaigned for Hillary Clinton. But what about his legions of supporters?

- Scott Simon

source: "How Will Bernie Sanders Supporters Vote?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 24, 2016.

topic: Clinton, Legion, Courses

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

- Gustave Flaubert

topic: Stupid, Ignorance, Names, Legion, Immorality

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

- Gil Kane

topic: Boys, Stories, Sandman, Legion, Commandos

A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

- Caroline Norton

source: "Bingen on the Rhine" l. 1 (1850)

topic: Nursing, Soldier, Tears, Legion

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

- Dave Winfield

topic: Play, People, Chance, Legion

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

- John Lennon

topic: Honor, Crosses, Distinction, Legion

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

- Andre Gide

topic: Honor, Age, Literature, Syphilis, Legion

The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Country, Presidential, Benefits, Legion

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Atheist, Lying, Waiting, Wait For Him, Legion

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Fashion, Hipster, Conceited, Legion

One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Hope, Taken, Men, Legion

Most people think witches are a coven of lesbians dancing naked in the forest celebrating the ***** stolen from imprisoned hypnotized males, which they then use to inseminate one another using turkey basters in order to create a legion of demon babies. Well, that's only part of it. We are also active in community outreach programs.

- Amy Sedaris

source: "Wigfield". Book by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert, 2003.

topic: Baby, Thinking, Order, Witchcraft, Legion

By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.

- Mary Blakely

source: Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mother, Home, Equal Pay, Resurgence, Legion

He was Caesar and Pope in o­ne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.

- Benjamin Smith

topic: Army, Men, Support, Legion

You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

- T. R. Fehrenbach

source: T. R. Fehrenbach (1994). “This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

topic: Military, Land, Civilization, Legion

The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy.... It has become more important to be a smart kid than a good kid or even a healthy kid.

- Sam Levenson

source: Sam Levenson (1966). “EVERYTHING BUT MONEY”

topic: Children, Smart, Kids, Legion, Healthy Kids

Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain him. But his name is now legion; he competes with the dead as well as the living; and the rewards and honours seem attenuated by division.

- Walter J. Phillips

topic: Appreciation, Artist, Names, Legion

We need to remember the purpose of our service to one another. If it were only to accomplish some part of His work, God could dispatch 'legions of angels.' . . . But that would not achieve the purpose of the service He has prescribed. We serve God and our fellowmen in order to become the kind of children who can return to live with our heavenly parents.

- Dallin H. Oaks

source: "I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go" by Dallin H. Oaks, www.lds.org. October 2002.

topic: Children, Angel, Order, Legion

I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist.

- Mindy Kaling

topic: Fashion, Hate, Fall, Fatty, Legion

Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by the legions of fans who are so excited to have more 'Star Wars,' that they roll off on all sorts of flights of fancy.

- Seth Green

topic: Stars, War, Taken, Supernova, Legion

The miracle of Good Friday is that there was no miracle. Legions of angels stood - with swords sheathed - watching as the Son took our place.

- Mark Hart

topic: Friday, Angel, Son, Legion, Good Friday

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.

- Thomas B. Macaulay

topic: Pride, Men, Dust, Legion, Bosoms

I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion."

- Tom Hardy

source: "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Nice, Thinking, Class, Legion

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

- John Locke

source: John Locke (1714). “The Works of John Locke Esq: In Three Volumes. The Contents of which Follow in the Next Leaf. With Alphabetical Tables. ...”, p.228

topic: Giving, Doctrine, Way, Legion, Admittance

How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic'. And shame on you for wagging your judgemental little fingers at IVF - a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfill their dream of having children, your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions. I shall never wear Dolce and Gabbana ever again.

- Elton John

source: @eltonjohn, www.instagram.com. March 15, 2015.

topic: Beautiful, Dream, Fashion, Ivf, Legion

Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

topic: Stars, Hero, Honor, Legion

... skepticism about past returns is crucial. The truth is, much as you may wish you could know which funds will be hot, you can't - and neither can the legions of advisers and publications that claim they can. That's why building a portfolio around index funds isn't really settling for average. It's just refusing to believe in magic.

- Bethany McLean

topic: Believe, Past, Average, Index Funds, Legion

Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerors of human misery and shame, and my breath came in little gasps. If I had not known that the Leader would have scorned such adulation, I might have fallen to my knees in unashamed worship, but instead I drew myself to attention, raised my arm in the eternal salute of the ancient Roman Legions and repeated the holy words, "Heil Hitler!"

- George Lincoln Rockwell

topic: Gratitude, Eye, Hair, Pimples, Legion

One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!

- Anne Rice

source: Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.769, Ballantine Books

topic: Running, Hate, Jealous, Always And Forever, Lestat De Lioncourt

Legion hissed like a startled cat, the noise scraping at Reyes’s skin. “Me no boy. You think me a boy?” Everyone stopped, stared. Even Aeron. Reyes was the first to find his voice. “You’re a…girl?” A nod. “Me pretty.” “Yes, you are.” Reyes exchanged a glance with Lucien. “Beautiful.

- Gena Showalter

source: Gena Showalter (2014). “Lords of the Underworld Collection 1: The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure”, p.838, Harlequin

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Cat, Legion, Scraping

Well...he's back in an exam room. Should I get out a quarter?" Everybody groaned. There was only one He out of the legions of male patients they treated, and coin bingo was typically how the staff decided who had to deal with him.

- J.R. Ward

source: J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.1509, Penguin

topic: Males, Bingo, Coins, Legion

I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan sea monster, I toppled the black throne of Kronos, and destroyed Titan Krios with my own hand. And now I'm going to destroy you Porphyrion, and feed you to your own wolves." "Wow, dude," Leo muttered, "You been eating red meat?

- Rick Riordan

topic: Children, Son, Rome, Jason Grace, Leo Valdez

So many misconceptions surround the notion of heroism. Far too many categorize a hero as a champion on the battlefield, a commander of legions, a master of rare talent or ability. Granted, there have been heroes who fit those descriptions. But many men of great evil as well. Heed me. A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them." (Beyonders - A World Without Heroes)

- Brandon Mull

topic: Hero, Mean, Sacrifice, Misconception, Commanders

I think I've got 12... Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, Plastic-Man, Green Lantern, Sandman, The Justice League, The Atom Legion of Superheroes and Teen Titans.... Just about all of their top titles.

- Stan Lee

source: Source: www.ign.com

topic: Men, Thinking, League, Justice League, Legion

Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse... by Floyd Gottfredson will be warmly received by comics aficionados but should also intrigue Disney animation buffs who aren’t necessarily plugged into comic strip history... I have a feeling that this book, crafted with such obvious care, will earn Gottfredson a new legion of admirers.

- Leonard Maltin

topic: Walt, Legion, Disney Animation

My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Dog, Feelings, Contentment, Deodorant, Spray

Upon the present theological computation, ten souls must be lost for one that is saved. At which rate of reckoning, heaven can raise but its cohorts while hell commands its legions. From which sad account it would appear, that, though our Saviour had conquered death by the resurrection, he had not yet been able to overcome sin by the redemption.

- Laurence Sterne

source: Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.271

topic: Heaven, Soul, Overcoming, Legion

For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.

- Florence King

topic: Men, America, Want, Legion

Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.

- Steven Weber

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hair, Media, People, Spleen, Delinquents

The number of 'unneccessary' errors that have been committed on move 41 are legion.

- Edmar Mednis

topic: Mistake, Moving, Errors, Legion

The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; [this is the central theme of John's Gospel:] When brought before Pilate, Jesus professes that He Himself is The Truth and the witness to the truth. He does not defend the truth with legions but rather makes it visible through His Passion and thereby also implements it.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Jesus, Passion, Doe, Legion

The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never requires a special kennel, it has no toenails to be clipped or coat to be stripped. Whiskey sits quietly in its special nook until you want it. True, whiskey has a nasty habit of running out, but then so does a dog.

- W. C. Fields

source: W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.150, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Running, Dog, Special, Legion, Toenails

There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.

- Marilyn Ferguson

topic: Country, School, Agency, State Legislatures, Legion

A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.... And in this fashion, we will end the war and settle our forefathers' account with Egypt, Assyria, and Aram.

- David Ben-Gurion

source: "The 1982 invasion of Lebanon". International Socialist Review, Issue 50, www.isreview.org. November–December 2006.

topic: Christian, Fashion, War, Cairo, Amman

There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.

- Taylor Caldwell

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Women, Home, Mean, Legion, Citations

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

topic: Horse, Father, Knights, Ancient World, Old World