Hero Quotes - Page 15

• Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.

  Bernie Siegel

  Winning, Dragons, Gold

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• I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I am no longer the great hero No. 2, who was compared with the grape-crowned Dionysius, whilst my colleague No. 1 enjoyed the title of a Grand Ducal Weimarian Jupiter. I am no longer a joyous, somewhat corpulent Hellenist, laughing cheerfully down upon the melancholy Nazarenes. I am now a poor fatally-ill Jew, an emaciated picture of woe, an unhappy man.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Laughing, Unhappy

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine”, p.12, The Floating Press

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• Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

  Richie Benaud

  Team, Winning, Captains

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

  Monte Irvin

  Kings, Men, Two

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• Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

  David Bowie

  Stupid, Believe, Enough

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• The final cover for Heroes Are My Weakness feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Giving Up, Islands, Odds

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• Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.

  Mike Eruzione

  Hockey, Player, Iran

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• The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

  Russell Baker

  Peace, War, Blood

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• I don't get the action... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun.

  Laila Ali

  Fun, Kids, Action

  "Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali Give Us the Goods on American Gladiators". movieweb.com. December 31, 2007.

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• I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.

  John Boyne

  Running, Growing Up, Children

  "John Boyne hates celebrity children's books". Interview with Kelly Gallucci, www.usatoday.com. April 11, 2014.

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• Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down.

  Patrick Wolf

  Fire, Hands, Feet

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• My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Men, America

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• The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

  Frank Miller

  Real, Dark, Perfect

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 5, 2001.

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• The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Voice, Violin, Sopranos

  "Why the cello is a hero". Interview With Julian Lloyd Webber, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 28, 2004.

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• Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Men, Being A Hero, Capable

  "Studio Ghibli hires male directors because they have a 'more idealistic' approach to fantasy than women" by Jess Denham, www.independent.co.uk. June 07, 2016.

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• I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.

  Gregg Harper

  Independence, Declaration, Documents

  "Gregg Harper: I 'hunt' democrats". Interview with Anne Schroeder Mullins, www.politico.com. October 20, 2009.

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• How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Different, World, Detectives

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• Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

  Heather O'Neill

  Stars, Children, Fall

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• It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by Lord Ellesmere - that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.

  Elizabeth David

  Believe, Mean, Home

  Elizabeth David (2011). “A Taste of the Sun”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

  Enric Sala

  Kids, People, Underwater

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• It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

  Yukio Mishima

  Thinking, Childhood, Common

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.107, New Directions Publishing

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• My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Mom, Strong, Dad

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• My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Guitar, Play, Rooms

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I get recognized for 'Reaper' in the U.K. I was in Costa Rica and got recognized for 'Heroes.' In Canada, it's 'Rookie Blue.' People also think that I'm in the 'Twilight' series because of Kristen Stewart.

  Missy Peregrym

  Twilight, Thinking, Blue

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• The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.

  Robert Fagles

  Ignorance, Men, Discovery

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