Quotes about hero
hero kids men
And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind. Chuck Palahniuk
hero epic climbing
For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible. Chuck Palahniuk
hero kids government
The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero. Chuck Palahniuk
hero want needs
I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time. Chuck Palahniuk
hero hip-hop black
Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps Chuck D.
hero stamps my-hero
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps Chuck D.
hero way ordinary
A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way. Christopher Reeve
hero thinking different
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences... Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Christopher Reeve
hero knowing doubt
A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway. Christopher Reeve
hero maturity views
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. Christopher Reeve
hero levels tvs
De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself. Christopher Meloni
hero honor enough
Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers? Anne Bronte
hero arms foe
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. Anne Bronte
hero men purpose
A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker. Andrew Bernstein
hero conflict threat
The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict. Andrew Bernstein
hero needs undaunted
A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted. Andrew Bernstein
hero struggle men
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. Andrew Bernstein
hero thinking blood
I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to deal with the fact that scientists are going to want to catch him and study him. His big enemy is not going to be Dr. Van Helsing today, it's going to be the doctor who wants to put him in a lab and get his blood for what it can do to cure disease or grant immortality. Anne Rice
hero shallow true-meaning
We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength. Anne Rice
hero dragons personal-history
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history. Andrew Solomon
hero dragons
When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes. Andrew Solomon
hero sight people
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
hero people body
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later. Ambrose Bierce
hero grandmother way
We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef. Anne Heche
hero race firefighter
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. Alphonse de Lamartine
hero ignorance people
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue. Alphonse de Lamartine
hero dying
In death a hero, as in life a friend! Alexander Pope
hero mean self
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous. Alex Tabarrok
hero villain persons
I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person. Alex Kapranos
hero differences making-a-difference
One person can and does make a difference. Albert Schweitzer
hero passion gun
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed. Debi Mazar
hero people giving
A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares. Debi Mazar
hero needs
We each need to become our own hero. Debbie Ford