Heroes Quotes

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
Brad Meltzer

Boring, Shy, Ordinary

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?
Brad Meltzer

Life, Best, Strong

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
Gale Sayers

Women, Men, True

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
Alfred Rosenberg

Religion, Time, Great

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.
Craig T. Nelson

Done, Put, Else

Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers.
Justin Bartha

Person, Getting, Excited

I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.
Barry Pepper

Clint, Harrison, Identify

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
Walter Lord

Great, Nice, Through

I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Change, Freedom, Struggle

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.
Robert Cray

Liked, Beatles, Melody

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
Phil Keoghan

Work, Good, Story

My heroes were always soccer players.
Ronaldinho

Soccer, Players

There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and within seconds someone who we should be thinking about will be replaced in people's minds with news that Beyonce lip-synched at the inauguration.
Tommy Mottola

Someone, Thinking, America

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
Will Carleton

Happy, Country, Dead

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

I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.
Sylvia Day

Love, Fall, Fast

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.
Neil Finn

Working, Rather, Exciting

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

Today, Free, Away

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
Wayne Allard

Women, Men, Real

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.
Tom Chapin

Real, Young, Old

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

Boring, Villains, Easier

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

Love, Men, Show

Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.
Will Hermes

Made, Dark, Worry

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.
Peter Segal

Humor, Sense, Flaws

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.
John O'Neill

War, Hero, Shoes

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
Cassandra Clare

Yourself, Book, Boring

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.
Clive Cussler

Time, Fun, Writing

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

Through, Learned, Okay

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

Stand, Move, Police

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
Peter S. Beagle

Great, Greatness, Goes

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