Heroes Quotes

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Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away. — Tom Brokaw
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone… — D. J. Enright
It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman… — Jeanette Winterson
Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly… — Henry Fielding
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that… — Abraham Maslow
For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there… — Pericles
Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place. — Boris Becker
Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my… — E. L. James
Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves. — Michael Moorcock
An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but… — George R. R. Martin
The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys… — Mike Tyson
The earth is enjoyed by heroes — Swami Vivekananda
I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'… — Richard Winters
Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near… — Ian Fleming
Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them. — Nancy Farmer
The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly… — Akira Kurosawa
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts… — Ambrose Bierce
Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by… — Bruce Cockburn
A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined… — Jim Butcher
God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder… — A B Simpson

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