The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Jean Genet

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
Jim Ramstad

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
John Thorn

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Charles Olson

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
Robert Shea

The law has no power over heroes.
Charlotte Lennox

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
Anthony Minghella

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
Ira Hayes

The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.
Wilferd A. Peterson

The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.
Jim Walsh

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
Ken Kesey

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.
Graham Greene

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
Brian Moore

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
Naguib Mahfouz

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

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
Laura Dern