Quotes about Heroes

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
-Bob Dylan

"Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love."
-Randy K. Milholland

"Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is."
-Will Rogers

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
-Will Rogers

"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."
-Bette Davis

"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration."
-Warren G. Harding

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."
-John Barth

"Heroes are often the most ordinary of men."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes."
-Bertolt Brecht

"The entrepreneurial heroes of the Valley are accessible to many people."
-Sabeer Bhatia

"Greg Howard was one of the heroes on the men's side."
-Janusz Bednarski

"Now is the time to honor heroes on two and four legs."
-Scott Shields

"NASCAR drivers are heroes. The books' appeal is that you can put yourself in the heroines' shoes."
-Pamela Britton

"The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes."
-Robert Brustein

"I saw some war heroes ... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11."
-John O'neill

"Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive."
-Alphonse De Lamartine

"Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go."
-Bernard Malamud

"We can be Heroes, Just for one day."
-David Bowie

"There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were."
-Nina Simone

"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"
-Maya Angelou

"Damned good programme, Hogan's Heroes."
-Paul Holmes

"In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one."
-John Gay

"They are great — our local heroes."
-Capt. Premek Kramerius

"These are neither heroes nor martyrs nor saints."
-Cheryl Keen

"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."
-Bob Riley

"My whole life has been comics, and this store has really been my dream all of my life. Because of it, I've gotten to meet all of my heroes."
-John Hitchcock

"Clearly, we are going to start reaching out all over the country for money now, ... one of my absolute heroes."
-Jack Kemp