Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

Robert McClure

Many of these corporations are really unsung heroes in the communities they serve," ()

Steve Forbert

My hero is Jimmie Rodgers, ... He should be up there with Walt Whitman.

Charles Olson

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Dick Vitale

My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

Dennis Haysbert

First of all, I never think of my characters as good or evil. I play them as honestly as I can. When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

Edgar Allan Poe

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

Edgar Allan Poe

Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

Albert Schweitzer

Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.

Charles Olson

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Eleanor Roosevelt

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Susan Winter

I feel so bad, ... I didn't shoot from a truck; I didn't knowingly do anything that was illegal. This is embarrassing.

Mariela Carrion

I can't sleep at night no more knowing that we could have lost him. There's just no words for it.

Ryan Shafer

I don't regret the shot. I regret not knowing that I needed to move. It's frustrating.

Elizabeth Bowen

Plot is the knowing of destination.

Elizabeth Bowen

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

Dick York

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

Barry Commoner

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Denis Leary

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

Denis Leary

My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.

Denis Leary

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

Denis Leary

Firefighters don't go on strike.

Denis Leary

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

Charles Simic

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Barbara Mikulski

I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources