Hero Quotes
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Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
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When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.
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Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.
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I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes; Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. . . . . A blockhead with melodious voice, In boarding-schools may have his choice.
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I was not the sort of boy who could train a dragon with a mere lifting of an eyebrow. I was not a natural at the Heroism business. I had to work at it. This is the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way.
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I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War, mostly we think of Red Cross nurses, but here I was reading about women serving as front-line soldiers, women serving as war journalists . . . and women who worked undercover as spies.
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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
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The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.
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You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.
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Each one was a hero. Their contribution to science and space exploration will never be forgotten.
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The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of physics has there been witnessed such a period of intense activity when discoveries of fundamental importance have followed one another with such bewildering rapidity.
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I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.
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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
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I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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Superboy and the Invisible Girl Son of Steel and Daughter of Air He's a hero, a lover, a prince She's not there...
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was four years old and watched 'Star Search' for the first time. I mean, Harrison Ford in 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark?' My hero.
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When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.
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The lover who kills himself for a girl has an experience which is more complete and much more profound than the hero who overturns the world.
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If we might be able to save this world, how can we walk away? Too many people around here have given up! Galloran said heroes sacrifice for causes; they do things that others hide from. I may not be some great hero, but I won’t hide from this. I would never live with myself.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.
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She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.
