Hero Quotes · Page 72

The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.

— Waylon Jennings

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

— Thomas Carlyle

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs

— Mary Higgins Clark

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

— Carl Crawford

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

— Marco Tempest

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

— Irena Sendler

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

— Richard Attenborough

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

— Wayne Newton

We would make our heroes shallow… We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning…

— Anne Rice

Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any…

— Hannah Howell

Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. "You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled…

— Rick Riordan

The passing of my friend and a great American hero, Dan Inouye, is a major loss for the country and Hawaii. But…

— Mazie Hirono

The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and…

— Joseph Campbell

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the…

— Alan Jackson

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that…

— Frank Miller

In 'The X-Men' world, one can be a hero one day and a villain the next, which means there's a constant battle…

— Noah Hawley

“We'd been trying so hard to look like our heroes, we'd kinda forgotten what a hero really is. Capes, masks, powers —…

— Mikko

I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a…

— Lynn Flewelling

I look up to people not necessarily based on what they look like. For example, Edith Piaf is somebody I think is…

— Kat Von D

An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and…

— George R. R. Martin

“I have been at this for decades. I have seen all of the best. The strongest and the smartest heroes in the…

— Jeremy Whitley

I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe…

— Suzanne Brockmann

Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people…

— Noam Chomsky

I looked at the campers, all of them grim and determined. I tried not to feel like this was the last time…

— Rick Riordan

“Put your f***ing finger down now before I break it off.”

— Nicole Castro

We are conditioned to believe that the hero is always a man, but it might not necessarily be so.

— Vicky Kaushal

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most

— Ethel Merman

It means a lot to be compared to Eric Roberson. He's a hero of mine.

— Avery Sunshine

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do

— Damon Throop

“Maybe it feels easier that way, just being invisible instead of always worrying what people think of you.”

— Leigh Bardugo

People see us like we're super heroes and all we do is fight and train all day and we're mean, but no.

— Mackenzie Dern

“Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here.”

— Amit Kalantri

“You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero.”

— Amit Kalantri

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

— Donna Brazile

“You see, it isn’t the task that makes a hero, it’s the obstacle that must be overcome.”

— Mark Cheverton

Look at a player like Divock Origi. No one was talking about the guy and then suddenly he becomes a hero.

— Moeen Ali

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

— Jessica Hagedorn

“The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

We used to quote Mel Brooks lines when we grew up. He's my biggest hero.

— Lee Evans

When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

— John B. Keane