Quotes About Heroes

Loner heroes do appeal to that part of yourself that feels as though your genius hasn't been recognised.

I was pretty much nonexistent on the Internet before NASA, and that was really because I've been inspired by amazing sacrifices of people who did amazing things - jumping on grenades or sacrificing their lives or doing the most crazy, brave things without hesitation and never, ever seeking recognition for it. That was always very powerful for me.

To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.

When you're growing up, you have your heroes, and you hear about people going off to other countries to play football, but when you're so young, you're not thinking about that. You just play. No referee, no rules.

Trump's direct predecessor, Barack Obama, never attacked his own generals or officials on Twitter, and never referred to war criminals as heroes.

I admire people who have fought for change: Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln. I'm dead serious when I say that - those are my heroes. I also like Ben Affleck.

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

There will always be haters. Small heroes can change society every day. It just takes time.

As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They're my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He's just really cool.

My heroes would never let me down; they never have. I've never been disappointed by any of them.

I don't compete with actresses; I only compete with heroes.

My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, 'This isn't how it's meant to be.' It wasn't about making music so much as selling it.

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.

People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.