Heroes Quotes · Page 15

“Our hero’s reflect a projection of our deepest selves.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.

— John Mayer

“This story inspires me to contribute with something unique and exciting for my time.”

— Simon Zingerman

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

— Nina Easton

“Ordinary people can be heroes too,' he said, 'if they want to be.”

— Judy Croome

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

— Michael Moorcock

“Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.”

— Amit Kalantri

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and…

— Bob Dylan

I've learned that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of…

— Ash Sweeney

Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was…

— India Arie

We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make…

— Rebecca Hall

When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

— Virginia Madsen

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they…

— Anonymous

We need to be our own heroes. We need a new way of looking at things. Greta Thunberg has shown us that.…

— Oliver Sykes

“War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.”

— Mary Horlock

I think if you look down the road for Twitter, we would like to be a company - a service - that…

— Dick Costolo

Certainly there were so many different people I had as heroes growing up. Steve Martin is always my number one. David Letterman's…

— Will Forte

We stand united in honoring our Veterans as the true heroes they are during National Salute to Veterans Patients Week. Their sacrifices…

— Al N. Green

One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes.…

— William Friedkin

“A boy adopts a hero for two reasons: because a hero captivates his soul and serves as a projection of his innermost…

— Edward Cline

“The more readily we make household names and the more numerous they become, the less are they worthy of our admiration... We…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“War, in some ways, is merciful to men. It makes them heroes if they are the victors. If they are the vanquished…

— Samhita Arni

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers…

— Justine Musk

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

“If monkey became a man, then a man can become a hero.”

— Amit Kalantri

Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.

— Ann Aguirre

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

— George Eads

“Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point”

— Amit Kalantri

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

— David Riesman

I spent my life playing heroes because I looked like one.

— Roger Moore

“Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sake.”

— Cassandra Clare

My heroes were people like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

— Rahul Dev

There are so many heroes just walking around in everyday life. It blows me away.

— Charisma Carpenter

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

— David Benioff

Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart.

— Eric Ludy

Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.

— Rebecca Goldstein

The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me.

— T. J. Oshie

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

— Bernard Malamud