Heroes Quotes

1173 Heroes quotes by 917 unique authors

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones. — Stephen Ambrose
You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life. — Dave Winfield
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. — Peter S. Beagle
What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. — Sarah Orne Jewett
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us… — John Osborne
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all. — Gerald W. Johnson
Our athletes are our heroes. — Cathy Rigby
In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes. — Barry Unsworth
My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca. — Leonard Cohen
Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors… — Lee Child
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to… — Damien Hirst
There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me. — J. R. Martinez
Shout out to Daryl Hall. He is the best. One of my true musical heroes. He comes from the Philly area so when it comes… — Mayer Hawthorne
Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it. — Jeff Ross
I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor. — Peter Segal
Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves. — Jack Gleeson
Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them. — Wilbur Smith
My heroes were always soccer players. — Ronaldinho
People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes. — Park Chan-wook
All of our heroes did silly stuff early and got more serious as time went on. Steve Martin, Adam Sandler, Bill Murray. They got older,… — Akiva Schaffer
When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put… — Erwin McManus
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. — Marilynne Robinson
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut. — Louis Sachar
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes. — Nathaniel Rich
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things. — Jerry Robinson

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