293 quotes found
“Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to ...”
“My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.”
“My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.”
“Mens strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.”
“No man is a hero to his own wife no woman is a wife to her own hero.”
“The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.”
“Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind.”
“No man is a hero to his valet.”
“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”
“Hail ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.”
“The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection and will in turn be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.”
“See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets beat the drums!”
“I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.”
“Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some weight. Maybe, who knows, I'll hire myself a trainer and a fancy cook. In five years, maybe I'll...”
“Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.”
“The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ”
“My Dad is my hero.”
“My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in Vietnam in a war he didn't want to be in and didn't understand. H...”
“A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. ”
“Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.”
