Quotes About Unknown Heroes

#1. Vivas to those who have fail'd!
And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!
And to those themselves who sank in the sea!
And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!
And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!

Walt Whitman

#2. The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. And for long years to come I am destined by some strange fate to walk hand in hand with my odd heroes, to gaze at life in its vast movement, to gaze upon it through laughter seen by the world and tears unseen and unknown by it!

Nikolai Gogol

#4. Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

Horace

#5. If you're on a plane and the person in front of you starts slowly tilting to one side, it means he's letting out a fart. Take cover!

Jessica Zafra

#6. People have interesting things to say and you're only going to learn from different people's experience and knowledge.

Ed Speleers

#7. 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

#8. Hate makes you stupid.

Patricia Cornwell

#9. Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Joseph Joubert

#10. I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

Nikolai Gogol

#11. When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?.

Brad Davis

#12. We should have made do at home. We threw away so much food."

Ricky says, "We ran out of ketchup," and the rest of them concur. No ketchup, no dinner.

Mary Kay Zuravleff

#13. A little bit of controlled pain when you're six will change your life when you're thirty-six.

Dave Ramsey

#14. We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

Richard P. Feynman

#15. I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

Albert Pujols

#16. Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools or systems in their name. They never create any stir but just melt down in love ...

Swami Vivekananda

#17. Charlie Hebdo has been sued a good dozen times by the General Alliance against Racism and for Respect of French and Christian Identity (AGRIF), an organization of Catholic fundamentalists who long maintained close ties with the National Front.

Charb

#18. The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes ... but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

Alan Lomax

#19. Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Nick Mancuso