Hero Quotes

2488 Hero quotes by 1701 unique authors

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps — Chuck D
They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians — Norman Finkelstein
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky… — H.G. Wells
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. — Wystan Hugh Auden
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get… — Christopher Dawson
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put… — E. M. Forster
The Yankees have twenty-five heroes. — Derek Jeter
I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President, it seemed. And… — Bill Hicks
Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving… — Stephen King
Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new. — Donald E. Westlake
Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times… — Dave Winfield
I don't think I've lost a beat at all. Because of my physique and my look...I fit in the natural action-hero role. — Jose Canseco
You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you. — Jonathan Kent
This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything… — Wilfred Owen
It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street… — David Brooks
There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank How… — Frank Rich
My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero. — Kamala Harris
Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. — Warren Zevon
The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he… — Roberto Calasso
My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does… — Frank Miller
The most questionable thing I did was make Superman a government agent. If this had been a Superman story, I'd never have done that -… — Frank Miller
A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your… — Lester Bangs
They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth,… — Lester Bangs
After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his… — Ron Chernow

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