Quotes about hero
hero forgotten worst
Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both. George R. R. Martin
hero manners
Lack of manners is the sign of a hero. Jean Cocteau
hero simple four
Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else. Gene Simmons
hero order champion
The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably of his own making - in order to triumph. Garth Stein
hero men design
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before. Frank Gehry
hero grandmother aunt
I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes. George Eads
hero marine endurance
Heroism is endurance for one moment more. George F. Kennan
hero college slavery
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family. George Edward Woodberry
hero play people
You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable. Felicity Jones
hero diapers
Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool. Felix Baumgartner
hero loyal glory
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory. Euripides
hero artist idols
Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing Francis Picabia
hero home moon
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent") Jhumpa Lahiri
hero world
The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. Graham Greene
hero welcome shows
Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me. Gil Scott-Heron
hero dubious three
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious. Gregory David Roberts
hero play missing
It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain. Ian Rush
hero past looks
To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present. Howard Zinn
hero president persons
Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person. Howard Baker
hero night agamemnon
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. Horace
hero men illumination
even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth ... Hannah Arendt
heroes hugh
Hugh is one of the heroes of the past.
hero
He's a hero of ours. He's how we want to be.
hero greek morality
Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods). Friedrich Nietzsche
hero tree looks
Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.
hero coward heroism
You cannot be a hero without being a coward. George Bernard Shaw
hero europe heaven
The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.
hero athlete fighting
Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes. Gale Sayers
hero people looks
Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
heroism involved white written
Everything before then was written off as savagery or barbarism. Any story that involved heroism was about white people.
heroes-and-heroism seems
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. Alphonse Lamartine
heroes kings soldiers
The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes
heroic massive
This was such a massive catastrophe. I don't know that anything could have been done differently. We had a lot of heroic people. John Walsh