Top 100 Quotes About Heroes
#1. I put my heart and soul everyday into showing my appreciation for the incredible sacrifices of the US Military heroes by using my freedom and rights, that they provided and safeguarded at such sacrifice, to the best of my ability fighting the enemies at home.
Ted Nugent
#2. Only kings are put in writing, you know. Kings and heroes. The rest of us are but fading echoes in the valley of eternity.
Anne Fortier
#3. Heroes become traitors, traitors become martyrs.
Julian Barnes
#4. Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world ... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.
Patricia C. Wrede
#5. Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.
Esther Forbes
#6. Capital," cried Basil. "I could eat a stag, antlers and all. I say they they do make a wonderful nosebag for us wounded heroes, y'know.
Brian Jacques
#7. When I pick a role, one of the things that I aspire to is that somebody's parent will come up to me after the film has come out and say, "My daughter idealizes that character. You're her hero." That's what I aim for. We're in the business of making heroes.
Evangeline Lilly
#8. Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.
Jane Leavy
#9. Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
Gale Sayers
#10. There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.
Stan Sakai
#11. We don't need wings to be angels
We don't need reasons to be right
Your love makes us all better
That who we really are
Angels and heroes at heart
Brian Littrell
#12. The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians.
Jean De La Bruyere
#13. It didn't matter the quality of the writing - Callie's fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.
Sarah MacLean
#15. Monsters are eternal," she told him, trying to keep herself from sobbing. "We will remember you and Damasen as heroes, as the best Titan and the best giant. We'll tell our children. We'll keep the story alive. Someday, you will regenerate.
Rick Riordan
#16. Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.
Jane Yolen
#17. You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.
Paul Gallico
#18. Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
David Gemmell
#19. Individual stones are not heroes, but all the stones together are heroic.
Ken Liu
#20. Your so-called "self" is a composite superimposed on the activity of many competing subpersonalities or agents. What you perceive as your consciousness is a string of temporary heroes rising above those they have defeated. And so you seek out heroes in the common story of your race.
Paul McAuley
#21. I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.
Siobhan Fahey
#23. All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.
Jean Vanier
#25. My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
Sidney Sheldon
#28. Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#29. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.
Huey Newton
#30. That would be no good," said the wizard, "not without a mighty
Warrior, even a Hero. I tried to find one; but warriors are busy fighting
one another in distant lands, and in this neighbourhood heroes are scarce, or simply not to be found.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#31. They blew out a breath and did the thing all heroes must do - they took that terrifying first step.
Chloe Neill
#32. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou
#33. The Bible lists in Hebrews 11 the heroes of the faith ... who were tortured, imprisoned, stoned, torn apart, and killed by the sword. They didn't wear designer jeans but went about in animal skins, destitute and tormented.
Billy Graham
#34. Forget trying to be Supermom - it's way too stressful and who needs more stress? Besides super heroes tend to wear a lot of clingy Lycra and none of us needs that.
Alana Morales
#36. The weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers
Nadifa Mohamed
#37. Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.
Kirk Hammett
#38. Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous."
"Who made up that rule?"
"It's a known fact ...
David Eddings
#39. Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron, So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action
Daniel Simon
#40. There is more than one kind of death? (Kat)
Yes. Cowards aren't the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#41. 'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.
Aidan Gillen
#42. Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth. That is why the roles of the heroes and heroines of plays are given by the managers to the most youthful actors they can find among the competent.
Booth Tarkington
#43. He was taking advantage of the brief lull in the battle to take a little nap, for do not all men, even heroes, need a refreshing little nap now and then?
Gunter Grass
#44. In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.
John Rhys-Davies
#45. The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.
Mel Odom
#46. We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.
Tom Hiddleston
#47. If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.
Jane Smiley
#48. The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
H.P. Lovecraft
#49. I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.'
Jonathan Jackson
#50. Merlin's eyes narrowed. We require heroes of wit and cleverness, unafraid to foil convention in order to defend a higher allegiance. Battle skills matter not. What we need at this moment, James Potter, are scoundrels with honor.
G. Norman Lippert
#51. I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my heroes complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the color. ("Ode to Chocolate")
Barbara Crooker
#52. I like underground rappers - Cory Gunz is a young kid that's been really doing his thing. I'm a Gym Class Heroes type of fan even though they're not new, but they're definitely trendsetters.
Nick Cannon
#53. The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them.
Nikki Rowe
#54. The beauties of nature come after the storm. The rugged beauty of the mountain is born in a storm, and the heroes of life are the storm-swept and battle-scarred.
Lettie B. Cowman
#55. If the concept of the Enterprise crew meeting the Legion of Super-Heroes doesn't appeal to you, there may be something wrong with you.
Chris Roberson
#56. Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren't really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?
Maggie Stiefvater
#57. Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
Bernie S. Siegel
#58. The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation, ... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.
Noam Chomsky
#59. Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#60. This would never happen to Van Damme. Heroes never shit. They only fuck and kill.
D.B.C. Pierre
#61. The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Jean Genet
#62. The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.
Wilferd Peterson
#63. I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.
Adam Schlesinger
#64. Without war there are no heroes."
"What harm would that be?"
"Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#66. Some Palaeolithic heroes survived in later mythical literature. The Greek hero Herakles, for example, is almost certainly a relic of the hunting period.
Karen Armstrong
#67. Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
Wayne Allard
#68. The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take adversity in stride and are prepared for trouble even when at ease; therefore, they are not at the mercy of fate.
Zicheng Hong
#69. My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with whatever guns and bombs and what not they could get their hands on, and just would fight Nazis, and try to help people escape.
Margaret D. Klein
#70. Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
Hal Boyle
#71. Are you telling me in your own gentle way to stop whining?"
"Yes."
"I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot."
"I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you."
"I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.
Megan Whalen Turner
#72. I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
Dalia Mogahed
#73. We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#74. And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
Adam Brody
#75. Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me ... I knew that no one would kill you quicker than Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do.
Malcolm X
#76. This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.
Bernard Beckett
#77. I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.
Sebastian Coe
#78. I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.
Joni Mitchell
#79. Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
John Oliver
#80. The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Charles Olson
#81. His favourite entertainments were intellectual rather than social; he went to public lectures and visited the observatory, the theatre and the opera. 'Tragedy excites the soul,' he later told one of his secretaries, 'lifts the heart, can and ought to create heroes.'24
Andrew Roberts
#82. Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward.
Tove Jansson
#83. Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.
Qiu Jin
#84. Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers.
David Gemmell
#85. I'm a hero hunter. I hunt heroes. Haven't found any yet. - Marshal Law
Pat Mills
#86. An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness
much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.
E. M. Forster
#87. The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.
Graham Greene
#88. The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
Andrew Young
#89. I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
Sidney Sheldon
#90. Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
John Osborne
#91. We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
Robert M. Hutchins
#92. If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
ONE
#93. I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.
Jerry Robinson
#94. Our Western press soldiers from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, etc. (often 1 correspondent for every 200 million Chinese), happily manufacture stories, demonize the Chinese government, and fabricate heroes, saviors, and incidents for China, at will.
Thorsten J. Pattberg
#95. But even in your world it's a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds ... get a Mother.
Diane Duane
#96. Listen to that voice that tells you not to trust someone, even though he's deliciously charming, remember Wickham and Willoughby and all those cads. And give another man a chance, even though he's not your usual type - remember Mr Knightly and Colonel Brandon and all those quiet heroes.
Menna Van Praag
#97. I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.
Jonah Hill
#98. I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
W.P. Kinsella
#99. I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a more democratic, pluralistic direction. You now find a lot of people who are looking outside of the mainstream of the history of art for their mentors. Maybe not heroes, but mentors.
Laura Owens
#100. The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.
Tess Gerritsen
