Hero Quotes

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.
Steven Cojocaru

Today, Mother, Grateful

One brave deed makes no hero.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Brave, Makes, Deed

I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.
Tom Shadyac

Family, Brother, Equal

My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
Ed Bradley

Father, Him, Closer

Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.
Tia Carrere

Time, Character, Put

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
June Jordan

Father, Passionate, Intense

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.
Roger Federer

Him, Proud, Childhood

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.
Shawn Ashmore

Fun, Play, Edge

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
Frances O'Grady

Remember, Poverty, Coming

We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.
Andrew Stanton

Love, Keep, Tell

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.
Tom Baker

Children, Long, Nothing

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
Johan Huizinga

Life, Nothing, Impossible

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.
Andrew Bernstein

Thinker, Holds, Purposes

I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.
James McAvoy

Teen, Fire, Play

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
Boris Becker

Place, Needs, Silly

I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.
Jim Lampley

Life, Positive, Mean

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.
John Wozniak

Good, Character, Bad

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.
Kazuo Ishiguro

Friends, Whole, Seriously

'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
Zachary Levi

Great, Amazing, Cool

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
Wally Schirra

War, Him, Remember

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.
Rebecca Harding Davis

Known, Childhood, Clay

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.
Jay Alan Sekulow

Strength, Point, Weakness

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.
Richard Dreyfuss

Art, Person, Acting

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.
Tom Selleck

She, Mine, Jordan

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.
Derek Jeter

Dreams, Future, Lie

I am not a hero.
Chen Guangcheng

Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.
Gil Scott-Heron

Show, Welcome, Sells

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
Alfred P. Sloan

Time, End, Percent

I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?
Donald Pleasence

Parts, Physically, Hardly

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
Walter Mosley

America, Books, Four

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