Chickens Quote by Annie Dillard

“There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it…

— Annie Dillard

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own…

— Gail Godwin

People aren't universally heroic.

— Alexei Sayle

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to…

— Arthur Helps

Every generation has to have its heroes.

— Chris de Burgh

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every generation has to find their own heroes.

— Sylvester Stallone

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

— Isaac

I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own…

— Robert Crais

Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

— Peter Weiss