Heroes Quotes

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.

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

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

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

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.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

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

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

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

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

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.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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.

Our athletes are our heroes.

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