Heroes and heroines Quotes

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can…

— Edward de Bono

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

— Carol Lynn Pearson

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all…

— Martha Gellhorn

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

— Jackie French

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all…

— Nelson Mandela

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

— Katherine Mansfield

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when…

— Yiyun Li

We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that…

— David Richo

In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the…

— Sarah MacLean

Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as…

— Ouida

I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who…

— Gladys Taber

The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes…

— Dalai Lama