Hero Quotes

I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero.

I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.

My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there's no heroism to that.

Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

You don't look so much like a great hero,' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not,' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoarse from screaming in terror. I don't think heroes have that problem.

My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing up.

I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't.

Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

I'm a sucker for hero worship.

I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

Walt Disney was my great hero.

He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.

Society is founded on hero-worship.

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly a super hero but i think it's important to take time and stay realistic.

When one is not slipshod in small matters, not hypocritical in secret, and not reckless in disappointment, only then is one a true hero.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they're already dead and they can't feel it. They don't have feelings.

One person can and does make a difference.

For some heroes, nothing is impossible

Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!

Non-stop action and a hero to die for!

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

My mama didn't raise any fools and she didn't raise any heroes.

In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

A great brand starts with a hero product.

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you’re still alone.

Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.

We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal.

Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.