Quotes About Heroes

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

His heroes were solitary thinkers and supermen like Newton and Nietzsche.

Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.

Los hombres desean que sus héroes sean perfectos, cosa tan laudable como poco realista.

To have the opportunity to bring 'Tallica Parking Lot' to life through images was really special. And also to have a lot of my heroes and my friends in the film was really, really special. People like Lemmy from Motorhead.

It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

I've spent a lot of my career playing heroes, like Jared in 'The Pretender,' but playing part of a dysfunctional family is more interesting.

I think every kid is a 'Spider-Man' fan at some point.

Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up the fallen flag and keep moving forward, bringing forth the good news that our heroes have helped create, their bodies lost, but their spirits and their good work everlasting.

I have worked with a lot of great artists, including some of my heroes like Michael Golden, George Perez, and Jose Garcia Lopez, just to name a couple. I have been spoiled.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

It seemed to Dinah that Camila wanted to strip humanity of its heroes. She'd couched what she'd said in terms of aggression. But by doing so, Camila was just being aggressive in a different way—a passive-aggressive way that Dinah, raised as she'd been raised, couldn't help seeing as sneaky. More destructive, in the end, than the overt kind of aggression.

I had not grown up on theater - in Hughes, Ark., you went to see a movie on Saturday. So my acting heroes were movie stars. It was a natural thing for me to want to get into the movies.

When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.

I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.

I love action movies.

Shaq and Muhammad Ali's my favorite two athletes of all time.

In a sense, by closing off the idea that young Muslims, and particularly young Muslim men, can be American heroes, it increases the chance that they'll try to be some other kind of hero. And that, I think, is entirely counterproductive.