Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet… — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White. — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship. — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.” — Matt McCook Copy Share Image
“It may be a crush, or hero worship (...), it may not be love, but if you've never felt anything stronger, how… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Christ invites us to assume the yoke, but we would rather ride in the cart. That is one reason why some find… — Terry Givens Copy Share Image
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
“We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“This kind of hero worship has been promoted by politicians and their complicit media since the middle of the last century. Once… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Trump wants to be the first American tsar. With his hero worship of Putin, his admiration for the apparent omnipotence of the… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Bring Cecily home,” he said curtly. “I won’t have her at risk, even in the slightest way.” “I’ll take care of Cecily,”… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
“I see. And who is this author?” “Neil Fucking Gaiman.” “His second name is Fucking?” “No, Leif, that’s the honorary second name… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“Don’t make that mistake again,” he said in a voice so quiet it was barely audible. He looked as if all his… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
“What are you two doing?” Her uncle’s teasing voice came into the room before he did. But his voice was the second… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
“I've been in darkness nearly all my life, and you brought light into my existance for the first time. And maybe that's… — Zoë Marriott Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn't one of them. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Laudy laud! is my new phrase for the hero worship that butters the human bread.” — Linda Robinson Copy Share Image
The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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