I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not. — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
The words used to describe the heroes of D-Day are not the current lexicon we tend to use for success. Humble, selfless,… — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
“It is an extraordinary thing to meet your heroes and find them to be everything you hoped they would be.” — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our… — Emily Mah Tippetts Copy Share Image
The damaged wealthy hero is actually a hugely common trope in romance, and alpha heroes are very common in romance. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
I like characters and stories that challenge the status quo. Lately, I'm really interested in history because I find that in my… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
“It drives me crazy how quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
At Liverpool, I used to read the match day programme, and you'd read an interview with a lad from the youth team.… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
The sun does go down but it always comes back up everytime it goes down. Never give up when you're down. Sometimes… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
“What does freedom mean? It means warriors are fighting for you, defenses are protecting you, and soldiers are sacrificing to preserve your… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work… — Simon Zingerman Copy Share Image
They say don't meet your heroes, but when it comes to Bowie, he truly is the most brilliant person I've ever met. — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas… In truth, they are heroes of our… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“The only cure for all social ills in our world today is the discovery and creation of more and more ordinary everyday… — Jeroninio Almeida Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of the book and Stephen King is one of my big heroes, literary heroes, and I am a… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
“The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good.” — Rachel Bach Copy Share Image
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike Copy Share Image
When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble. — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic… — J.M. Richards Copy Share Image
The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
The whole sport, I feel like for years has done a great job trying to recognize the heroes amongst the country. — Chase Elliott Copy Share Image
I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see… — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
“Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“In my experience heroes are no more good than you or I. And though occasionally noble, they are just as often cunning,… — Jonathan Auxier Copy Share Image
When A Person Has Something Important They Want To Protect... That's When They Can Became Truly Strong... As Strong As They Need… — Haku Copy Share Image
I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you… — Peter Weller Copy Share Image
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image