Hero Worship Quotes
Hero Worship Quote of the day
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.
The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.
The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?
I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.
Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.
I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.
The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.
It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.
But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke
A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.
