Hero Quotes
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Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.
Homer
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I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
Thomas Carlyle
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There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.
Caragh M. O'Brien
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"Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
Rutger Hauer
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One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.
Carolyn Wheat
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The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.
Charles Sangster
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The idea of a new hero for a new day sang to me.
Corey Hawkins
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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
Thomas Carlyle
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I take being a hero really seriously.
Bret Hart
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Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
Carroll O'Connor
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All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.
Vladimir Lenin
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You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish to be.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
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My partner and I are very serious about the hero profession.
Bill Willingham
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The wrath of Peleus' son, O Muse, resound;Whose dire effects the Grecian army found,And many a hero, king, and hardy knight,Were sent, in early youth, to shades of night.
John Dryden
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If a hero is a person on which you've made an explicit choice model yourself, mine is my father for showing me how to live a life of substance.
Vivienne Ming
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I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
William Lashner
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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.
Studs Terkel
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As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.
Elena Ferrante
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He creates a new kind of hero: not warriors, corporate executives, or politicians, but brave and determined activists for preemptive peace, willing to suffer with Him in the prophetic tradition of justice.
Brian D. McLaren
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We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life – threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.
Sarah MacLean
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Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.
Carson McCullers