Heroes For Quotes

#1. Putting together a list of heroes for 'Original Sin' was a long process, just like figuring out the villains. Along the way, some were taken out, and a few more were added.

Jason Aaron

#2. We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery ... It's not a life.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#3. I don't have individuals that are heroes per say but I will suggest that teachers are heroes for me, our firefighters are heroes for me, our police departments are heroes for me and our leaders are heroes for me.

John Assaraf

#4. I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. We could steal time, just for one day
We can be Heroes, for ever and ever
What d'you say?

David Bowie

#6. They want to believe, but there are too many villains in the world and not enough heroes for anyone to truly buy into the scam that is hope.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#7. We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.

Bob Taft

#8. If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.

Stephen Jay Gould

#9. Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

Dave Koz

#10. There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left.

Jeremy Collier

#12. I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.

Ruth Rendell

#13. We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

Frances Hardinge

#14. I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

Michelle Shocked

#15. True heroes are never heroes for the recognition. They do what they are supposed to do, play the hand they've been dealt. And true heroes don't seek out heroism. It's thrust upon them.

Darynda Jones

#16. Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something about it, crafting strong, modern heroes for a modern audience.

Adam Christopher

#17. Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

Cornelia Funke

#18. I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

Gavin Rossdale

#19. The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

Adam Christopher

#20. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.

Molly Ivins

#21. Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.

LZ Granderson

#22. What's the point? To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for a narrow-minded or embittered man.

Anton Chekhov

#23. I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that are heroes. Gandhi, Jesus, Moses, Martin Luther King they were all secret heroes in my mind because they stood for what they wanted, what they believed in.

John Assaraf

#24. The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

Samuel Johnson

#25. Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.

Winston Churchill

#26. Such, then, was my position: to care for almost nothing but the gods and heroes, the garden of the Hesperides, Launcelot and the Grail, and to believe in nothing but atoms and evolution and military service.

C.S. Lewis

#27. It started with blogs; now, through social media, anyone who is active on the internet creates a digital projection of themselves for public consumption. We are all stars, all heroes in our own online productions. What does this do for our authenticity? It destroys it.

Ned Vizzini

#28. In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

Daniel Dennett

#29. Lil Wayne, who is actually responsible for my career has always been a huge influence to me and one of my heroes.

Drake

#30. O beautiful for spacious skies, ... O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine!

Katharine Lee Bates

#31. 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

#32. I feel for all the parents whose babies just keep waking up for years. My heart and back go out to you guys! You are my heroes, and I am not fit to walk in your shoes!

Constance Marie

#33. Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, and age for gods and heroes.

George R R Martin

#34. 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

#35. There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares ... heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.

Joan D. Vinge

#36. 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

#37. Even heroes have the right to bleed

Five For Fighting

#38. Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with doubt long after the deed is done.

Liane Merciel

#39. Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

Bei Dao

#40. No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero

Frank Herbert

#41. 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

#42. Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

Alan Dershowitz

#43. Hmm ... " Jason snapped his fingers. "I can call a friend for a ride."
Percy raised his eyebrows. "Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first.

Rick Riordan

#44. (About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers to all the great geniuses of his time, and to the heroes of antiquity, and of which he finds the life and action make a good example for those that fortune favors.

Frederick The Great

#45. I suppose we all hit a point when no one has to describe fear & confusion for us anymore, a point when life carves it into us.

Josh James Riebock

#46. Collective achievement, of course, is less appealing both to the participants and to those later reading about it as the human impulse is to look for the heroes and villains.

Matthew Restall

#47. I used to go to the comic store all the time. I was into comic cards, which are essentially baseball cards for comic book heroes. They have these cool stats on the back. I had collections of these things. I still have a lot of my collection at home.

Brett Dalton

#48. The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

Daniel Craig

#49. I have enormous respect for our military men and women, the everyday heroes who provide the security the rest of us enjoy. I don't like them in front of that door.

Karen Marie Moning

#50. For I was sure of one thing, it wasn't always the hero who saved the world. It was the person most willing to die first.

R.K. Ryals

#51. The thought was sobering. How many people's motives didn't match up with what I'd taken for their actions? How many villains were the heroes of their own stories? I didn't know, and I was terribly afraid that I was never going to find out.

Mira Grant

#52. To all those women
strong enough to be heroes; fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you.

Robert Fanney

#53. Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

W. Somerset Maugham

#54. A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

Daniel Boone

#55. It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.

John Salazar

#56. For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.

Auliq Ice

#57. The young man looked down from the cart at the people in front of him. Jonah felt his teacher's eyes meet his own, and for a fraction of a second a smile played on the prisoner's lips. Then he glanced toward heaven and spoke. I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Anna Myers

#58. The real heroes of the Wish Factory are the young men and women who wait like Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot and good Christian girls wait for marriage.

John Green

#59. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.

Sharon Robinson

#60. No more Lastrygonians." Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.

Rick Riordan

#61. What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

David Lloyd George

#62. In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love.

Sarah MacLean

#63. We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

James Mangold

#64. When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.

Clive Cussler

#65. Did I read the myths of the Greeks? Of strong men gaining glory for their own heads? No. I told them tales of Arthur, of the Nazarene, of Vishnu. Strong heroes who wished only to protect the weak.

Pierce Brown

#66. With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone.

Erik Qualman

#67. I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#68. DEDICATION To my computer: I couldn't have written this without you To the software developers responsible for spellcheck: You are my everyday heroes To Karen: I hope this makes you laugh and makes you proud. To my readers (all 3 of you): Thank you

Penny Reid

#69. It's an old and honored tradition for war heroes to be promoted to important offices, whether or not they're suited to it

Christie Golden

#70. We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible results - or those heroes who focus on process rather than results.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#71. A propagandized population has a hard time choosing worthy heroes. It is high time Americans celebrate the Anti-Federalists, for they were correct in predicting the fate of freedom after Philadelphia.

Ilana Mercer

#72. We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes ... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.

Vince Lombardi

#73. We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I'm trying to see the world and the events through their eyes.

George R R Martin

#74. We are a city of charming little parkettes, she thinks grimly, that nobody ever visits. Named for local heroes that nobody remembers.

K. D. Miller

#75. My heroes are people who are working hard and trying to make a good living for their families. My heroes are people who put their families first.

Dale Murphy

#76. A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies.

Henry David Thoreau

#77. I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

Mercedes Lackey

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Herodotus

#81. The fastest runners don't always win the race and the greatest heroes don't always win the battles. But just keep running and fighting if that's all you can do. Never lose faith. And one day, you just might attain all that you hoped for and ... more.

Jose N. Harris

#82. If you need inspiration, look into the eyes of people as you walk by them. They are looking for a hero; that person may be you.

Robert J. Braathe

#83. [Iris] squeezed his hand. Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.

Rick Riordan

#84. I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think there's enough pie for everyone. The kind of people I'm competing with are my heroes - Woody Allen, Billy Wilder - who I know I'm going to fall short of.

Stephen Merchant

#85. You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism.

Amit Kalantri

#86. There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were

Nina Simone

#87. 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

#88. I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

T. S. Eliot

#89. For heroes do not make history - that is the historian's job - but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide of change, of chance, of war.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#90. Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their soul, in their heart, in their spirit, in their mind, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. Im just a cyclist.

Gino Bartali

#91. Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.

Ellen Key

#92. Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#93. The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Bruce Coville

#94. For a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.

Orhan Pamuk

#95. Heroes inspire us for many reasons: they make tough decisions, they keep going and they get done what matters. But there's another reason we love our heroes. Inside us all, we know we have the power to become one ourselves.

Oliver

#96. Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?'
If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.

Margaret Mitchell

#97. The blacklist was a time of evil ... no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil ... [Looking] back on this time ... it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

Dalton Trumbo

#98. We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.

Lorenzo Snow

#99. I've begun my career working with older heroes. The people I had been fan of, I now work with them. It's a great opportunity for me.

Nayantara

#100. Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

W. H. Auden