Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil;… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them. — Jessica Lynch Copy Share Image
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on… — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish,… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like a heroic woman or to seem full of myself, but I do have a core of… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end. — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand,… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war. — Allan Lichtman Copy Share Image
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
