Heroes Quotes

Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

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

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I can't get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. These scientists are American heroes.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

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

I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba.

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

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

I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

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.

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

Heroes can be sweet.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.