Top 24 Sayings About National Heroes
#1. We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#2. One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
Ida Tarbell
#3. When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
Bradford Cox
#4. It grey louder. Louder. They were singing, singing at the top of their lungs. Andrius joined, and then my brother and the gray-haired man. And finally, the bald man joined in, singing out national anthem. 'Lithuania, land of heroes...
Ruta Sepetys
#5. Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.
Robert D. Putnam
#6. Museums should no longer concern themselves with history on a grand scale, the sagas of kings and heroes, or the forging of national identities; they should focus instead on the lives and belongings of ordinary people, just as modern novels do.
Orhan Pamuk
#8. Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling.
May-Britt Moser
#9. I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.
John Naisbitt
#11. Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.
Joseph Jacobs
#12. Kemal's former opponents in the CUP, all dead by 1930, were resuscitated as heroes in the Turkish national consciousness.
Eric Bogosian
#13. The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.
George Eliot
#14. He could dispatch a beast with one blow of his tail so that it didn't know (and presumably still doesn't know) it had been killed. He
C.S. Lewis
#15. I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.
Eugene B. Sledge
#16. But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
John Thorn
#18. People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do.
Jill Shalvis
#19. The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
Robert Creeley
#21. I understand that for the people who really care about you the fact that you are facing cancer is very hard to swallow. They will need time managing and dealing with their emotions just as you do.
Yilda B. Rivera
#22. I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
Ozzy Osbourne
#23. She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute.
Jojo Moyes
#24. America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.
Gunnar Myrdal
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