Hero Quotes

The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.

It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

Everyone has an inner hero that they have glimpsed from time to time, just waiting to break free Now is the time to tap into your true hero potential.

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.

Tina Fey is one of my heroes.

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

What's a hero if not for its journey.

Johnny Unitas was my hero.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers.

I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.

No man is a hero to his own valet.

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.