Our Heroes Quotes
48 quotes by 45 authors
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The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
— Nick Cave
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
— Maya Angelou
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All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
— Peter Carey
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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
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There was nothing that I ever did, no conscious effort to do one kind of behavior or another, I can't explain what it was, but…
— Larry Coryell
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We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.
— Gerard Houllier
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We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.
— Marco Tempest
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While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that…
— Kirsten Gillibrand
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Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and…
— Jacqueline Winspear
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Black History Month is dedicated to heroes that paved the way for Black people. It's a month that's very imperative because it gives those who…
— Alana Beard
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If we want an America of heroes, we need to cherish our heroes of the past.
— Harry Crocker
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No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's…
— Colin Powell
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Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
— Mark Twain
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Through adversity we find our heroes...
— Steve Gleason
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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
— Plato
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Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East.…
— Orrin Hatch
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If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
— Baal Shem Tov
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a…
— Daniel Dennett
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Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
— Veronica Roth
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At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Our Heroes Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 48 Our Heroes Quotes, led by these top contributors: