Hero Quotes - page 12

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain. (Lev Grossman)
Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should. View quote
Lev Grossman
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief. View quote
Lev Grossman
Are you making fun of my hero complex?' Yeah. View quote
Linda Howard
All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel. View quote
Jo Nesbo
My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete. View quote
Joanne Harris
My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.' View quote
Alan King
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. View quote
May Sarton
No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond. View quote
Richard Hammond
The man who in times of popular excitement boldly and unflinchingly resists hot-tempered clamor for an unnecessary war, and thus exposes himself to the opprobrious imputation of a lack of patriotism or of courage, to the end of saving his country from a great calamity, is, as to "loving and faithfully serving his country," at least as good a patriot as the hero of the most daring feat of arms, and a far better one than those who, with an ostentatious pretense of superior patriotism, cry for war before it is needed, especially if then they let others do the fighting. View quote
Carl Schurz
It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero. (Corazon Aquino)
I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him. View quote
Dave Brubeck
Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig. View quote
Leon Bloy
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them. View quote
Christopher Dawson
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that. View quote
Laura Dern
You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home. View quote
Allen Carr
The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century. View quote
Mickey Mantle
Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done. View quote
Russell Means
My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers. (Dylan O'Brien)
I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting. View quote
Elizabeth Peters
I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I? View quote
Donald Pleasence
Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you'll find out how big a prize you've won. View quote
Twyla Tharp
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. View quote
Tecumseh