Quotes About Heroes

We, at least I, need monsters. Without monsters, there are no heroes. Something has to be black and white. ~Lew Fonesca

The people of midtown Manhattan, understandably, had a love-hate relationship with the FF. They loved having heroes in their midst, especially heroes as public and friendly as the Four. But the constant brawling and property damage had brought on civil suits, protests, and even the occasional death threat. Still

It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. Perhaps immortality, too, is part of the quest. To be remembered was the wish, spoken and unspoken, of the heroes and heroines of this book.

The stories of my heroes provided me with MUCH better things to think about. Important things, meaningful things, real things that mattered and didn't depend on ratings. Learning about them, reading their words made me want to be a better person.

I also learned that my heroes had heroes of their own. They had stood on the shoulders of those who came before them, learned from them, were inspired, took what that learned and wave it into their own originality, and made something brand new for their own times. Everything was connected. Everything stepped up forward in though and genius.

Three of my heroes that have gotten clean and sober that I got to ask for advice were Alice Cooper, Nikki Sixx and Zakk Wylde.

We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.

I've met so many real heroes, people whose service has given me the life I'm lucky to live on U.S. soil.

Those heroes and soldiers who sacrifice themselves for the nation always have their coffins covered with the national flag. Us players are like those soldiers - we wear the national flag when we play.

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

Not being white has never prevented me from enjoying Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. These are heroes of mine.

Harrison Ford has always been one of my favorite actors. I grew up with Han Solo and Indiana Jones, and 'Regarding Henry' is one of my favorite movies of all time.

John Brown was one of my longtime heroes, and it was with no little amount of temerity that I accepted the role. There are some things I am hesitant about, and playing a hero of mine is one of them.

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.

We don't need wings to be angelsWe don't need reasons to be rightYour love makes us all betterThat who we really areAngels and heroes at heart

Life would have been easier if he'd never taught her to believe in heroes by handing her those cookies that day, but it wouldn't have been nearly as magnificent either.

Don't let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.

You could be heroes and few would ever know. What does that feel like?

We are not all born heroes and athletes. At the same time it is elementary wisdom always to fear weaknesses, including one's own; the reactions of the weak, when touched off, can be horrible and sudden.

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

I thought about enduring. Maybe losers get to be taken care of! The truth is we were so wronged and so forgotten we had to become heroes to survive at all.

Americans look for heroes in the strangest of places.

Death smoothes the rough edges, obliterates the cruelties of the deceased. It makes heroes of monsters.