There once was a hero who flew too close to the sun. His…

“Get closer," I told Blackjack. "I need to talk to the statue." Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, he muttered, but he flew…

— Rick Riordan

Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.

— Jeremy Robert Johnson

Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the…

— Mao Zedong

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of…

— Dwight Longenecker

I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President, it seemed.…

— Bill Hicks

Teachers are heroes.

— Charles Best

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

— Joseph Campbell

“A hero is not know by the number of battles he has won, but rather by the kind of battles he chooses to fight.”

— Tonny K. Brown

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped…

— Stanley Kubrick

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

'Melanin Man' was inspired by the words of an Uber driver in L.A. Before I got out of the car he said, 'They're scared…

— Masego

When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who…

— Christopher Reeve

I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor…

— Esai Morales

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group…

— Eli Roth