Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

Lin Yutang

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

Liam McIntyre

Im pretty sure that everybodys hero is Gannicus

Greg Boyle

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

William Clark

You have become role models for teams all around the world, ... and you are heroes in our community.

These are the heroes of the Northern Police District.

The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes

Richard Dawkins

I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

Richard Dawkins

[Richard Leakey is] a robust hero of a man, who actually lives up to the cliché, “a big man in every sense of the word.” Like other big men he is loved by many, feared by some, and not over-preoccupied with the judgments of any.

Richelle Mead

Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a super-hero." "Not yet," I said.

Richelle Mead

It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.

Ronald Steel

Heroes come along when you need them.

Ron Chernow

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

Umberto Eco

Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

Rick Riordan

Annabeth didn’t want to sleep, but her body betrayed her. Her eyelids turned to lead. “Percy, wake me for second watch. Don’t be a hero.” He gave her that smirk she’d come to love. “Who, me?” He kissed her, his lips parched and feverishly warm. “Sleep.

Rick Riordan

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

Rick Riordan

Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.

Rick Riordan

Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason

Rick Riordan

Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!” “Oh, sure,” Leo said. “Like…um, the Little Mermaid?” Aphros frowned. “Who? No! Like Triton, Glaucus, Weissmuller, and Bill!” “Oh. ”Leo had no idea who any of those people were. “You trained Bill? Impressive.

Rick Riordan

Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing." Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. "I'm not a hero.

Rick Riordan

I looked at the campers, all of them grim and determined. I tried not to feel like this was the last time I'd ever see them all together. 'You're the greatest heroes of this millennium,' I told them. 'It doesn't matter how many monsters come at you. Fight bravely, and we will win.' I raised Riptide and shouted, 'FOR OLYMPUS!' They shouted in response, and our forty voices echoed off the buildings of Midtown.

Rhianna Pratchett

Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes.

Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world

Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

Regina Spektor

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

Rick Yancey

There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out.

Rick Riordan

It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this ― this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back!

Rick Riordan

No hero is above fear.

Rick Riordan

Perseus, you are not the hero.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

Ozzie Newsome

I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you think of Johnny Unitas.

Peter Greenaway

My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.

Pericles

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.