Heroes Quotes

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
Haruki Murakami

Special, Talk, Tell

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.
Tom Hiddleston

Lives, Ourselves

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Power, End, Act

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
Jimmy Carter

Work, Human, Give

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.
Jimmy Carter

Great, Christian, Leader

I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.
Natalie Portman

Love, Point, Anyone

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Time, Makes, Dissolves

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
Michael Caine

Cool, Nice, Dark

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
Jean-Michel Basquiat

Famous, Romantic, Feeling

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca.
Leonard Cohen

Great, Two, Yeats

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins

Ourselves, Dragons, Rescue

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.
Hollis Stacy

Attitude, Gay, Problem

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.
Stephen Fry

Love, Time, Great

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
Charles Kuralt

Good, Luck, Worship

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Bertolt Brecht

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
Daniel Craig

Great, Truth, Crazy

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon

Mind, Minds, Faithful

What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
John Podhoretz

Movies, Evil, Quality

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
Doris Lessing

Thought, Possible, City

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
Nina Simone

Young, Knowing, Excuse

Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women's struggles. And I said yes, but at the same time, it's also important to tell stories about women's triumphs, women being slackers, women being criminals, women being heroes.
Diablo Cody

Time, Women, Important

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.
GG Allin

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.
Stephen Ambrose

Crazy, Live, Dead

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Noam Chomsky

Nature, Fear, Reality

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
Guy Kawasaki

Society, Someone, Put

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
Lauryn Hill

Nature, True, Ego

I had both male and female heroes.
Sally Ride

Both, Female, Male

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
Dan Lipinski

Nation, Less, Veterans

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
Margaret Mitchell

Fool, Brave, Fighting

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
Charles Horton Cooley

Live, Past, Self

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