heroes quotes

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

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

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I’ve come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

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

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They’re my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He’s just really cool.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

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

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

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

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

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.

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

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

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

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.