Age Quote by Edward Gibbon

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive…

— Joseph Campbell

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there…

— Thomas Carlyle

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working,…

— Jean Anouilh

The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic…

— Michael Dowd

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive…

— Joseph Campbell

There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff…

— Henry David Thoreau

The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and,…

— Stan Lee

“In some significant aspects, heroes are born, not made. Heroic qualities flow through a person's veins like an undercurrent, ready to be translated into…

— Mo Yan

The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

I like portraying heroes of antiquity whose values were grander and more spectacular than those of today.

— Charlton Heston