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Quotes About Hero

The Deliverer-Hero, with a Weapon, on a Horse?' says Mark. 'The tough but loving tutor who tempers him like fine blue steel? The Bush? Kinobe? Yoda?
~ David Foster Wallace
It will not go out,' said Keeva, putting her hand on Ustarte's shoulder. 'He is a hero. My uncle told me that heroes have special souls that are blessed by the Source. He was a wise man, my uncle.
~ David Gemmell
sonríe a pesar del dolor en el tobillo izquierdo. En algún lugar leyó que los ganadores del maratón se vuelven héroes por tantas horas dedicadas al entrenamiento; el día de la carrera, en cambio, los héroes comienzan a llegar después de las cuatro horas. El día de hoy, se dice Matus, seré un héroe.
~ Unknown
But the light in front of the mosque-- the light I stood in as I was greeted like a local hero, simply for rising from my bed three hours after most of the women and children I lived with-- this light was something else again. It buzzed and held you in its heat, it was thick, alive with pollen and insects and birds, and because nothing higher than one story interrupted its path, it gave all its gifts at once, blessing everything equally, an explosion of simultaneous illumination.
~ Zadie Smith
The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and raced across the blue dome and dipped into the sea of fire every evening.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Brother Anansi, the Spider, that great cultural hero of West Africa who is personated in Haiti by Ti Malice and in the United States by Brer Rabbit.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I was made for action movies.
~ Asia Argento
I didn't aim to be a hero at all. So when I got a hero's role, imagine my joy.
~ Nizhalgal Ravi
Paolo Di Canio was my all-time hero.
~ Jack Wilshere
the Sun is the kind of hero we are, but the Ascendant is the quest on which we must embark. The Sun is why we are here; the Ascendant is how we get there.
~ Unknown
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
~ Hugh Laurie
My name is Llian. I've come to save you." Said to Karan just before Llian falls flat on his face in front of her.
~ Unknown
El destino de cada individuo encaja -invariablemente- con el destino de otro, siendo cada cual héroe de su propio drama mientras figura, simultáneamente, en un drama que le es ajeno. Todo esto es algo que escapa a nuestro poder de comprensión y cuya posibilidad sólo podemos concebir en virtud de una maravillosa armonía preestablecida. - Arthur Schopenhauer
~ Unknown
The world needs its hero and that's exactly what Jesse will be.
~ Unknown
We have had heroes here, and now He will be over hero for The Grand Journey.
~ Unknown
Sometimes people identified too strongly with the famous—it was one of the prices of notoriety, especially when so many considered you to be a hero. Batman sometimes filled much too large a hole in people's lives.
~ Unknown
I don't mean to pry, but saving people is my calling. Yours vigilantly, The Masked Avenger
~ Craig Silvey
For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
~ Cressida Cowell
The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.
~ Cressida Cowell
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.
~ Nora Ephron
The hero of 'Dark Powers' can touch murder victims and read their last memories.
~ Ruth Glick
As a kid, growing up, as far as I was concerned, I was Luke Skywalker. Any sort of small victory or any adversity I would come up against at school, I was like, 'How would Luke Skywalker deal with this?' Everybody was the Empire; anybody who bullied me at school was the Empire.
~ Jacob Anderson
I believe the path to a long career is to keep the audience guessing. Daniel Day Lewis is my absolute hero from that point of view. I literally will pay to see anything he does because I know it's going to be something different than I have already seen.
~ David Oyelowo
Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies.
~ Neil MacGregor