Sentences with phrase «family legend»

Because my grandfather had died when I was a toddler, what I knew about him was mostly family legend.

The grains began to float and multiply once more, and the slimy water became a thing of family legend and lore.

A rough, raw, often amateurish take on the Sawney Beane cannibal family legend, the piece derives its power from the canny paralleling of its antagonistic families and its use of archetype and mythology in the telling of what is essentially a caste horror picture.

For me it's been a journey too, one I could not have predicted, beginning with early family legends and moving through a country and an era I have always loved toward moments in our history that never should have happened.

Earliest travel memory: Family legend tells me that I went land - yachting with my dad in the Mojave Desert at three - months old, although I don't really remember that.

As family legend has it, Kjartansson was conceived the night after the film shoot.

Some 15th cousins of his great grandchildren have written it up, based on the family legend, so you know it's TRUE!

She is at the stage when she wants to hear the old stories, the family legends, and sometimes we end up telling her, oh, you're so much like your mum when you do such - and - such, and then she glows with belonging.

Volunteers bring supplies and listen to patients» complaints, fears and family legends.

The McIlhenny Company is beginning to publicly recognize the inconsistencies of its history attributable to family legend.

Family legends have a way of becoming exagerated.

Watch the final theatrical trailer for Brave below (UPDATE: Disney / Pixar has uploaded a 1080p version, giving the trailer the title, «Families Legend»):

According to family legend, I apparently nearly convinced my parents to take me to see «Taxi Driver» when I was 5 — I probably used the presence of Jodie Foster to convince them it was a Disney movie — until someone finally checked the rating and saner heads prevailed.

A year later, according to family legend, the last wild buffalo east of the James River wandered onto the newly broken soil of his farm.

Like nearly all of our family legends, this one has to be taken on faith (my ancestors were not given to writing things down) but as a boy I was more than willing to do so, and ever since, I have been fascinated by the American bison, which at one time roamed through most of the North American continent, sixty million strong.

«As a teacher, I would often hear students... talk about their family legend with this reverence, and in some ways it was their personal mythology,» says Kiely, who taught high school English for 10 years before quitting to write full time.

Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize - winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure - and the forces that work to destroy us.

Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize - winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure — and the forces that work to destroy us.

It is family legend that any small reptile or amphibian that could not out run Dr. Gary usually ended up in a cardboard box or an aquarium.