Quotes About Unheroic

#1. James Hook, thou not wholly unheroic figure, farewell. For we have come to his last moment.

J.M. Barrie

#2. The odds against this were tremendous, but Edith was not interested in the odds; people who thought about odds were unheroic and would never achieve anything. 20

Barry Unsworth

#3. And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

Grant Morrison

#4. To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

Dorothy Norman

#5. He had little sympathy...for Mirabel, and little for what I have called the New Sensibility of the early 'twenties, for its flat bleakness, its lawless versification, its unheroic tone, its unintelligible images, its 'modernity' in short.

Jocelyn Gibb

#6. There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic, yet high, eternal contest!

George MacDonald

#7. Our age is so resolutely unheroic, and the employment opportunities for registered demigods are now so scarce, that all we can do, in our enfeebled state, is laugh with envy and disbelief at the memory of those who still had the wit and the wherewithal to live large.

Anthony Lane

#8. People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

Ken Burns

#9. Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

Howard Shore

#10. I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Tommy Douglas

#11. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

Mark Pryor

#12. May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

Kate DiCamillo

#13. When I turned back, he was already walking away. It was a brilliantly clear day, not a cloud in sight, and yet the sun didn't seem to reach his body. He was shadowed and I couldn't help it: I felt sad for him.

Jessica Shirvington

#14. There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

Faith Hill