Heroes Quotes

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

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.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

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.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

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

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?

I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

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.

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

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.