Famous Hero Quotes

#1. Someone's got to be the hero," he replied, and walked off across the hull.
"Famous last words," I muttered.

Ransom Riggs

#2. We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

T.D. Jakes

#3. Destriers began to perish of exhaustion and exposure. "What is a knight without a horse?" men riddled. "A snowman with a sword.

George R R Martin

#4. Dr. Paul Ekman is a great guy... studying micro-expressions... gestures... and many other facial expression... body movements....

Deyth Banger

#5. Bad people often end up as heroes.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#6. For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Jesse Owens

#7. Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Homer

#8. Greece is internationally famous for three reasons. First it has more islands than people. Second, it used to be a part of Turkey. Third, its national hero, Alexander the Great, was a Yugoslavian.

Fatima Bhutto

#9. Zion smelled of cooked vegetables, humanity, and ganja.

William Gibson

#10. He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

Walter Hill

#11. My mood, as I identify with each of my heroes, resembles what I used to feel when I played alone as a child. Like all children, I liked to play make-believe, to put myself in someone else's place and imagine dream worlds in which I was a soldier, a famous soccer player, or a great hero.

Orhan Pamuk

#12. Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "Englandexpects that every man will do his duty." In 1805 that was enough. It should still be.

Johan Huizinga

#13. The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil.

Andrew Williams

#14. I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?

Eric Greitens

#15. Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

Patrick Duffy

#16. I've never said this to a girl before."
I bit my lip, waiting.
"Well ... " He looked down. "I'm not sure how to say this." He took a deep breath and announced, "I really like fighting evil with you.

Joan Bauer

#17. Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach.

Marcus Samuelsson

#18. Like magnets: opposites attract. People are the same. Everyone has their flaws, their quirks. Rub them together, you get friction. It's the places where they're different that locks them together.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#19. You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

David Lee Roth

#20. The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and only later finding to their surprise that they must cope with both
while their men may be trying to figure out how to get out of doing both.

Judith Martin