Quotes About Heroes

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.

Oh, c'mon, Boss. Where's your sense of history?" "I like to read about history, not make it." "You see, Boss? It's because of attitudes like yours that there are so few human heroes." "And so many humans.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

Of course, Malayalam has a slightly different way of working because here at least if the movie is good, it gets some mileage by word of mouth even if you don't have big heroes.

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

When I was smaller, I always looked up to Zidane, Messi, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo.

When a kid smiles because you take an extra 30 seconds, minute, minute and a half to go over and ask them what their name is, give them the shirt you just wore to the ring, you just see them light up. We've all been kids before; we've all had our heroes, been fans of somebody and needed that autograph.

I grew up in the church and loved contemporary Christian music. I go back to the early days of when it first started with the likes of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith. Those people that really pioneered are heroes of mine.

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.

If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. Mark Twain1

see, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

De la misma manera en que las distintas sociedades y religiones de todo el mundo han creado una mitología increíble, nosotros creamos la nuestra. Nuestra mitología personal está poblada de héroes y villanos, ángeles y demonios, reyes y plebeyos.

Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared? Ah, where have they gone, the amblers of yesteryear? Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars?

El aparato de propaganda quiere que la galería de héroes muertos esté bien ordenada. Quiere que entre los héroes haya un héroe principal.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell - they're my heroes.

Heroes only need to be brave when there's a good reason. It would be stupid to risk your life without a purpose.

But our long struggle is held together by the slender threads of heroes and myths.

Innovation and daring create heroes. Mindless adherence to outdated rules creates only politicians. —VISCOUNT HUNDRO MORITANI

Innovation and daring create heroes. Mindless adherence to outdated rules creates only politicians.

Just when we think we have our own stories figured out, heroes arise in the most unexpected places.