Quotes About Heroes

The age of heroes had truly passed, and Tisamenus could not be one even if he burned for it. A great bronze wall had been erected around those old heroes, it descended from the sky, and no one could lift it or trespass there. Each age bestowed its own glory, but the age of my grandson could not be the age of Menelaus.

Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?

Then there're Theseus, Oedipus, Peleus, Orpheus, Jason and Hercules all waiting to be untangled, since their various deeds are running crisscross through my mind like multicolored threads in a dress. Myron

Femeile sunt niÈ™te soldaÈ›i care lupt? È™i sufer? pentru supravieÈ›uirea omenirii, mult mai viteji, mult mai curajoÈ™i decât numeroÈ™ii eroi ai libert??ii cu gura lor mare.

Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together! I

I know nothing of those heroes of macabre facts masquerading as fiction.

I wished I had some heroes, one or two people self-aware enough to be bigger than their smallest hungers

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

I didn't yet know that romantic heroes—famous and not—are usually aimless nomads in disguise.

There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren't the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin)

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Too many heroes in my life. All gone.

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.

I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

Everything in Scripture has the force of law. What it teaches we are to believe; what it commands, we are to do. We should take its wisdom to heart, imitate its heroes, laugh at its jokes, trust its promises, and sing its songs.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping Of Nature's kind, fostering care, Are blooming, - our heroes are sleeping, - And peace broods perennial there.

I listened to her with my head in my arms and looked out the window at the whirling starry sky. The Greeks had used those same stars to conquer the world. We were like them - gods and heroes.

The postwar canonizing of Southern heroes, together with the cultivation of the plantation myth, which conjured an antebellum golden age, effectively destroyed the narrative of emancipation, which had been written in the blood of war

There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.