America Quote by Vicki Baum Download Open image “There is a need for heroism in American life today.” — Vicki Baum ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare America American life Heroism Life Needs Role models Time Today
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf. — John McCain Copy Share Image
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
“Everyday heroism is all about doing what we ought to on a daily basis and regardless of the tons of pressures that come on… — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
“The experiences people have in a large hotel do not constitute entire human destinies, full and completed. They are fragments merely, scraps, pieces.” — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
