Heroes Quotes

1173 Heroes quotes by 917 unique authors

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
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts. — Ian Fleming
I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. — Jim Morrison
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions… — Oscar Wilde
Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there… — Graham Greene
BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan.… — Ambrose Bierce
I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and… — Helen Keller
A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work… — Jim Morrison
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them — Henri Frederic Amiel
For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes — Unknown Author
How we stop the black panthers? Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer You hear that? What Gil Scott was hearin When our heroes and heroines… — Kanye West
And in that time. When men decide and feel safe. To call the war insane, Take one moment to embrace. Those gentle heroes. You left… — Krzysztof Kieslowski
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to… — Henry Miller
King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the… — Lloyd Alexander
Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of… — Chief Edward F Croker
I'm a hero and I only exist, because I get to save you. — Zabi Khojazada

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