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

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
Bob Lilly

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead

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

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.
Willie Stargell

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.
Jeremy Brett

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.
Stacie Orrico

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
Will Rogers

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
Rahm Emanuel

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
Laura Dern

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.
Todd Tiahrt

We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.
Lorenzo Snow

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
Bobby Seale

We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.
Bob Taft

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

Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
Bobby Farrelly

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.
Sarah Orne Jewett

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.
Frank Miller

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.
William Kraft