Hero Quotes · Page 59

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

— Umberto Eco

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

— Tim Heidecker

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together… You are my heroes.

— Tom Harkin

“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.”

— Ronald Reagan

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

— Joss Whedon

“Maybe I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine.”

— Shon Mehta

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

— Riley Keough

Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

— Jethro Tull

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things.…

— Michael Morpurgo

That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn…

— Sarah MacLean

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I…

— Moby

“Everyday I wake up knowing that no matter how many lives I protect, no matter how many people call me a hero,…

— Peter Parker Spiderman

As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in…

— Saint Basil

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the…

— Simon Cowell

I'm interested in female friendships and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might…

— Germaine Greer

“My hero- is the Son of Adon Olam . He has already atoned for the evils that have been done. He did…

— Erika Mathews

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks…

— Marilyn Manson

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the…

— Philip Yancey

We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral…

— Pauline Kael

Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization…

— Martin Cruz Smith

A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and…

— Michael Scott

Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god,…

— Terry Pratchett

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

— Edmund Hillary

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.

— R. Kelly

“In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes.”

— Amit Kalantri

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

— Thomas Carlyle

“There was no way he could ever be my hero when his first words to me were a command to keep things…

— Jennifer Echols

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

— Richard Hammond

Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero.

— Jessica Chastain

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

— Criss Jami

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

— Ernest Becker

“And you managed to leave the house and be the hero. Who do you think you are, Spider-Man?”

— Kim Harrington

“You want to be a superhero still, Grace? Well, every hero has a nemesis. And I'm yours.”

— Bree Despain

There so many ways to die like coward but There is no easy way to die like Hero.

— Dante Ivar

“It's not that heroes have no fear; it's just that they understand what it takes, to get the job done!!”

— Robert Armstrong

“Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.”

— Brad Herzog

“Well, someone slap my butt and give me a hero cookie. (Nick)”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon