Heroes(Related Subjects: Courage)

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962 I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan (1941 - ) Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. John Barth (1930 - ) A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. Warren G. Harding (1865 - 1923), Speech in Boston, 1920 Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is. Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925 We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)