Heroes Quotes

1173 Heroes quotes by 917 unique authors

One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it… — Regina Doman
Long ago I left heroics to the heroes — Peter Weiss
Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters And the sun… — Leonard Cohen
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus.… — Cornelia Funke
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself,… — Brenda Ueland
John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this… — Paul Cornell
He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the… — Neil Gaiman
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes… — Paulo Coelho
In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson… — Stephen Ambrose
What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age… — Tony Kushner
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious. — Gregory David Roberts
We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe… — N.D. Wilson
We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen.… — Darren Shan
Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or… — Garrison Keillor
And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes — Nikki Giovanni
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. — George Bernard Shaw
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we… — Iris Murdoch
It's not just children who need heroes. — Tamora Pierce
The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult… — Roger Lowenstein
Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they… — Richard Paul Evans
He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like… — Nora Roberts
It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes. — Joseph Stalin

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