54 Quotes on Heroes

• Not all heroes wear capes, some wear scrubs.

  Author: Emily Roberts

• A hero is not measured by their achievements, but by the lives they touch

  Author: Emily Chang

• A hero is not measured by their strength, but by the kindness in their heart.

  Author: Sophia Garcia

• We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

  Author: Norman Spinrad

• See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

  Author: Mickey Spillane

• I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

  Author: Michelle Shocked

• I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

  Author: Robert Sheckley

• We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

  Author: Bobby Seale

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

  Author: Ken Salazar

• We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

  Author: Will Rogers

• We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

  Author: Tom Robbins

• Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

  Author: Bob Riley

• I had both male and female heroes.

  Author: Sally Ride

• Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

  Author: Barry Pepper

• We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.

  Author: Stacie Orrico

• The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

  Author: Charles Olson

• Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

  Author: Craig Nelson

• And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.

  Author: Len Murray

• The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

  Author: Brian Moore

• I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

  Author: Wilson Mizner

• What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

  Author: Frank Miller

• Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

  Author: Michael McCaul

• Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

  Author: Joe Mantegna

• Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

  Author: Alphonse Lamartine

• Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

  Author: Charles Kuralt

• What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.

  Author: William Kraft

• The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

  Author: Ken Kesey

• The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

  Author: Helen Keller

• My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

  Author: Michael Jordan

• Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

  Author: Gerald Johnson

• What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

  Author: Sarah Jewett

• My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

  Author: John Hughes

• As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

  Author: Ernest Hemingway

• Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

  Author: Georg Hegel

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

  Author: Ira Hayes

• We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

  Author: Helen Hayes

• The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

  Author: Graham Greene

• Heroes can be sweet.

  Author: Oriana Fallaci

• It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

  Author: Richard Donner

• I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

  Author: Jeffery Deaver

• I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

  Author: Robert Cray

• To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

  Author: Charles Cooley

• Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

  Author: Jeremy Brett

• Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

  Author: Bertolt Brecht

• My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

  Author: Bono

• Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

  Author: Peter Berg

• I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

  Author: Boris Becker

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

  Author: Maya Angelou

• Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

  Author: Stephen Ambrose

• I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

  Author: GG Allin

• King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

  Author: Lloyd Alexander

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