Quotes about hero
hero bradley-manning american-hero
Bradley Manning is an American hero. Bianca Jagger
hero men soul
The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale? C. S. Lewis
hero thinking people
Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.
hero athlete gold
Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes. Cathy Rigby
hero giving people
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Bette Davis
hero gun helping-others
Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that. Antoine Fuqua
hero murder villain
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero. Bill Vaughan
hero men goal
Goal achievement is hero's work.
heroism infamy love
I think there's a love of infamy and heroism that doesn't play into the zeitgeist, Rob Cohen
hero abortion feminism
The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism. Betty Dodson
hero america never-forget
We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times. Bob Taft
hero home thinking
I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not. Bob Feller
hero names soldier
The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
hero home gun
I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.
hero spirit another-life
My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life thats what Id be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. Thats where the spirit of the armed forces is. Bob Ainsworth
hero white all-time
I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her. Cheech Marin
hero athlete people
Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people. Charlie Sheen
hero creative demon
The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes. Carl Jung
hero saved
Timber is my hero and undoubtedly saved my life,
heroic movies reason whereas
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. Oscar Isaac
heroes traits
We have a need for heroes as a species, you know. That is one of the distinguishing traits of humans. We have a need to have an idealized sense of who we are at our best. David Blankenhorn
heroes horror kept mess pages point relation sat stuff woke
I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this. Padgett Powell
heroes
You all are heroes of mine, and I ain't got many heroes. Kinky Friedman
heroes history honoring partisan process turn
Most important to me is not having the process of honoring heroes turn into a partisan process. History is too important.
hero indulge religion
Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship. Robert Webb
hero past people
My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete. Joanne Harris
hero interesting achilles
All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel. Jo Nesbo
hero rights years
The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year I was in office... second year, 1979, 51,000 came out of the Soviet Union. And every one of the human rights heroes - I'll use the word - who have come out of the Soviet Union, have said it was a turning point in their lives, and not only in the Soviet Union but also in places like Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland [they] saw this human rights policy of mine as being a great boost to the present democracy and freedom that they enjoy. Jimmy Carter
hero rights giving
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
heroic lay life response situation training
The lay person doesn't have that training so their response to a life-threatening situation isn't always the same or as heroic as you would like it to be.
hero heroes-and-heroism main
The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die. Will Rogers
hero spinning causes
The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship. Mahatma Gandhi
hero disaster
It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out. James Stockdale