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Quotes About Heroes

People care about the unutterable awe of American heroes stabbing into the heavens on columns of fire.
~ Unknown
The "play" that is the nation's capital never closes, high drama and low comedy, villains and heroes, all the stuff of compelling theatre. And in true theatrical spirit, the show must, and hopefully will, go on.
~ Margaret Truman
It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .
~ Robert Heilbroner
Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
~ Joseph Hopkinson
We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.
~ John F. Kerry
We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
~ Will Rogers
The heroes of the faith usually have feet of clay—sometimes thighs, hearts, and heads as well. The
~ Unknown
If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.
~ Mark Twain
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.
~ Mark Twain
If there was any drug that was to symbolize the people that ate our heroes, it seems like bath salts was a good idea. It's also a drug that, I think, is still funny to a lot of people.
~ Seth Rogen
I want to be a children's hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.
~ Geoffrey Canada
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.
~ Derek Jeter
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
~ Gustav Stresemann
Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.
~ Gail Simone
There is no greater sacrifice than giving one's life for their country. Memorial Day allows us to remember our fallen heroes, our loved ones who served and to pay our respects to the many who paid the ultimate price. God Bless each and every one of them.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
We sit around waiting for them to come home, hoping every day that they are okay and that they know how much we love them... our heroes.
~ Unknown
Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes
~ Martin Luther
They gave the world some of its finest heroes. Saving them's the least we can do.
~ Matt Forbeck
Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful:The seeds of godlike power are in us still:Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will.
~ Matthew Arnold
But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did; this and nothing more.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Those who resisted were neither madmen nor wise men; they were heroes—men in whom passion and reason were identical, who in the obscurity of desire did what history expected and what was later to appear as the truth of the moment. We cannot remove the element of reason in their choice any more than the element of audacity and risk of failure.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.
~ Maya Angelou
No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan