Because Thats What Heroes Do Quotes

#1. I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

Adam Hamilton

#2. Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

Doug Phillips

#3. 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.

Dick Vitale

#4. Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed because the printer ran out of capital I's.

John Colville

#5. No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#7. People watch the Olympics because they want to believe in heroes; I know I did.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#8. She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there's an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we'll all live happily ever after.

Mira Grant

#9. Being around all the great names of the game at a young age because they were my heroes; the fact this meant so much to Canada. It was just an incredible thing to be a part of.

Marcel Dionne

#10. I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.

William Monahan

#11. Most infants are geniuses. They're indomitable, fearless, and completely in harmony with a cosmic proclivity for growth. They're heroes because they walk directly through adversity with love and ardent resolve.

Daniel Gillies

#12. Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart.

Eric Ludy

#13. Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Because soldiers aren't really brave, they follow orders. Soldiers do as they told. They're not heroes. There are no real heroes, son. It depends on whose telling the story.

Chris Priestley

#15. Because if there was one thing Cress knew about heroes, it was that they could not resist a damsel in distress.
And she was nothing if not in distress.

Marissa Meyer

#16. I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

Katee Sackhoff

#17. We are here because the world needs heroes.

Robert J. Braathe

#18. They'd stayed not because they wanted to be heroes, but because they chose to think of it as their job, and it was in front of them.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.

Billie Jean King

#20. Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here.

Amit Kalantri

#21. Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.

Willie Nelson

#22. War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.

Wouter Van Gastel

#23. I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.

Jim Woodring

#24. Because it's the closest I'll ever have you, and for some damn reason it matters that I know you're willingly at my side.

Jessica Lee

#25. Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

Veronica Roth

#26. It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.

Chris Hayes

#27. I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

Colin Wilson

#28. In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.

Woody Allen

#29. Ultimately the men who choose against violence, against death, do so because they want to live fully and well, because they want to know love. These are the men who are true heroes, the men whose lives we need to know about, honor, and remember.

Bell Hooks

#30. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job's got to get done and they're the only ones left to do it

Meg Cabot