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hero

Quotes including the word “hero”.

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Brecht

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Calderon

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it”

Bob Dylan

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Umberto Eco

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Hemingway

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

Ibsen

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

John Keats

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Doris Lessing

What is a hero without love for mankind.

Primo Levi

Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

Norman Mailer

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.

Miłosz+Czesław

I do not wish to become a god or a hero. I only wish to become a tree, growing for centuries without harming anyone.

Novalis

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Pericles

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Elvis Presley

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Rolland

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

Rolland

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Sartre

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Irena Sendler

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

Nina Simone

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Teresa Teng

I would rather be loved than be a hero.