293 quotes found
“Heroes are more than just stories, theyre people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, theres always something in them thatll turn sour... youll lea...”
“But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.”
“Thats what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.”
“I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she isshes a hero.”
“While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.”
“There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody.”
“The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.”
“The people need a hero. But all they've got is . . . me.”
“Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.”
“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.”
“He wasnt a hero. He wasnt the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost himself. Shadows had invaded a long time ago and stolen his life. But he would give anything he had left to...”
“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!”
“What is a hero without love for mankind.”
“'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead chara...”
“Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?”
“My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't en...”
“Lauryn Hill's always been a hero of mine. And Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae and Adele, those are the current artists I would reference in terms of who's been able to do really amazing pop records with ...”
“It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.”
“In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.”
“The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.”
