Hero Quotes
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Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons -
It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
David Simon
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I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.
Joel McCrea -
One reason Cassavetes is a hero to me is that his movies grew with him; they reflected the stages of his life. He made movies about where he was at that time. That's what I want to do with my films.
Derek Cianfrance -
Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
P. L. Travers -
While the angels, all pallid and wan,Uprising, unveiling, affirmThat the play is the tragedy, 'Man',And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
Edgar Allan Poe -
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton -
I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.
T. J. Miller
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My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.
Peter Cullen -
Wars, conflict, it's all business. 'One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero'. Numbers sanctify.
Charlie Chaplin -
Jack was embarrassed - never hero more,And as he knew not what to say, he swore.
Lord Byron -
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
Nikolai Gogol -
There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.
Gillian Gilbert New Order -
The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.
Joe Dante
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I think there's always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people can't feel that they have any hero qualities unless there's someone beneath them.
Dustin Hoffman -
Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.
Charles Studd -
The one test I have for every completed book is if I feel head over heels in love with the hero. If he hasn't stolen my heart from the previous hero, I know the book isn't right.
Kresley Cole -
When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.
Jessalyn Gilsig -
Paul Volcker is a tremendous hero with the Federal Reserve system and for the American economy. He took very tough actions and helped to break the back of double-digit inflation at a time when it had to be done.
Charles L. Evans -
My father was my hero. I can't say enough about him and everything he did for me and my family.
Jean Smart
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But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one – because it's blank. It says 'Your Hero's Photo Here,' and 'Your Hero's Story Here.'
Brad Meltzer -
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.
Irwin Edman -
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.
Debi Mazar -
Outside the seasons passed: sun, snow, spring green, October storms . . . was this a vision of my future? When would the shunning hero come, to set the clock if my life in motion again? Would he come some morning, or in the night? In April or December? This year? Next year? I shuddered. No, I wouldn't just sit and wait. I wanted to go out. Maybe there were new men out there, better men, men who'd just been waiting for me. Somewhere someone is always waiting for someone.
Eva Heller