Quotes About Heroes

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.

Juno: The heroes of olympus must unite! After your victory over kronos in manhattan...well I fear that wounded jupiter's self-esteem. Percy: Cause I was right and he was wrong Juno: He should be used to that after being married to me so long, but alas.

lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!

May the gods defend me from heroes with duct tape. And heroes always seem to have duct tape.

Humans don't exist on the same level as immortals. They can't even be hurt by our weapons. But you,Percy - you are part god,part human.You live in both worlds.You can be harmed by both,and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special.

Hermes tilted his head. "Percy, that almost sounded like sarcasm. You know very well the gods can't go around busting heads and ripping up mortal cities looking for our lost items. If we did that, New York would be destroyed every time Aphrodite lost her hairbrush, and believe me, that happens a lot. We need heroes for that sort of errand.

Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, To storm or fire the world must fall. An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.

You'll find your destiny, and your hard journey will finally make sense. But first you must face many sorrows. I regret that, but heroes cannot be shaped any other way.

Typical," Pear muttered. "The killers are remembered as heroes. The growers are forgotten. Except by us nature spirits.

In God's eyes, the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat this life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity.

Okay, now things got tough. In the movies, heroes always get into seemingly impenetrable buildings through a heating duct or ventilation shaft or service entrance. In real life, if someone goes through all the hassle of creating an elaborate security system, they don't have a 3 ? 3 ventilation shaft secured only by a metal grate and four screws. Unless they're really, really stupid.

Could Ashyn do the same in the same situation? Likely not. Heroes made the bold moves. Heroes risked their lives. Others kept the troops at ease, tended the wounded, fed the hungry, and soldiered on, and the world could not survive without them any more than it could without heroes.

The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

In ancient days, men looked at the stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Each night before falling asleep, Hill would close his eyes and imagine himself to be in the company of nine "invisible counselors" modeled after his nine greatest heroes: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Paine, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, Luther Burbank, Napoleon Bonaparte, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie.

To know and admire history's heroes involves a knowledge of the full historical context they lived in, warts and all, in order to see clearly how they changed that world for the better.

Reporters heard words but not poetry, saw old politicians but not new heroes.

The Revolution eats its own. That's the law. And the greatest heroes die with it. They always know their fate when they begin. That's their true heroism.

Yes. That, right there, is the difference between the heroes and the nobodies. The difference between people like you and people like me. People like me know that there is no magic. There is only the grind. Work looks like magic to those unwilling to do it.

The future is what it is," said Largeman. "Your people have been poisoned with the myths of lone men turning the tide, improbable tales of heroes outrunning explosions with their feet. Such tales are forbidden here. Events are laid forth and they cannot be turned. There are no heroes, Mr. Wong.