Hero Quotes - page 7

When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times. (Elvis Presley)
In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. View quote
Don DeLillo
One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive. View quote
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero. View quote
John Barth
A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors. View quote
Daniel Boone
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear. View quote
Anthony Trollope
My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important. View quote
Lea DeLaria
...the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes. (Oswald Mosley)
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. View quote
Robert Sheckley
And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors. View quote
Ted Nugent
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. View quote
Jane Austen
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death. View quote
Siegfried Sassoon
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed. View quote
George William Russell
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel. View quote
Florence Nightingale
The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind. View quote
David Hume
A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction Be heroes in an army of construction. View quote
Helen Keller
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. (Helen Keller)
They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes. View quote
George Lucas
You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish to be. View quote
Andrew Biersack
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day. View quote
Ray Bradbury
What is a hero without love for mankind. View quote
Doris Lessing