Quotes About Heroes

New black heroes were made and old ones dropped every day.

This book is about street-level cooking and its practitioners. Line cooks are the heroes.

Os poucos heróis culinários que havia no Dreadnaught eram admirados mais pela sua resistência em combate – medida pelo número de pratos servidos numa noite, quantidade de dor e de calor suportados, número de empregadas comidas e cocktails consumidos sem efeitos aparentes. Esses eram os valores compreendidos e apreciados.

The heroes of life are so much better than the heroes of romance," said Caroline.

And he has a much higher chivalry than that of the old poets. They, or their heroes, watched their women because they did not want to have trouble about them, — shut them up in castles, kept them in ignorance, and held them as far as they could out of harm's way.

That will be said because people think that heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear.

The brutal aggression of these would-be soldiers and heroes, wrenched from hopelessness and unemployment and easily turned into unthinking zealots, chilled

I was only giving expression to a sad reflection that was rising in my mind. Kichijiro was right in saying that all men are not saints and heroes. How many of our Christians, if only they had been born in another age from this persecution would never have been confronted with the problem of apostasy or martyrdom but would have lived blessed lives of faith until the very hour of death.

Nosotros, como todas las razas, tenemos nuestros santos y nuestros pecadores, nuestros cobardes y nuestros héroes.

We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests.

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and our admiration rises to the most absolute worship. Therefore, when we behold him as we should, the change is profound.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." [ Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera , blog post, March 19, 2009]

Honoring artists on a par with military heroes was a humanistic innovation intiated at Brunelleschi's death in 1446.

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

My people say Gaea likes a good story, and she likes great heroes. Are you a hero?

I listen only to heroes. You spoke of great deeds when you sang your song. Speak of them now, to leave me forever. Sing to me of your adventures.

Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.

I heard heroes and saw them in my mind and imagined what evil was and cheered at its destruction. In the movies too, in film after film, evil could be destroyed.

I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my heroes complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the color. ("Ode to Chocolate")

That was the Battle of Mons. As the opening British engagement of what was to become the Great War, it became endowed in retrospect with every quality of greatness and was given a place in the British pantheon equal to the battles of Hastings and Agincourt. Legends like that of the Angels of Mons settled upon it. All its men were valorous and all its dead heroes.

They awarded Jones the money at a ceremony where the white parish trustees whetted each other to death explaining what unprecedented heroes they were—most of the bond, of course, coming from white taxes.

I was talking recently with a friend of mine who's determined to never meet her heroes, and I have another friend who's been horribly disillusioned a couple of times. But I've had a wonderful ride with meeting people who have been my North Stars, and Bowie's definitely one of them. He feels like my cousin; like the cousin I never had.