On Heroes Quotes

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

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

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

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

No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them.

The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

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

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

But no man's a hero to himself.

I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.

No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.