I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there are forms of greatness, or at least of excellence, which "die and make no sign"; there are martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; heroes without the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph.
Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.
Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.
If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
In the U. S. , African- Americans, no matter what we do - when we sit in, when we freedom ride, when we kneel in, whatever it is, the initial response from the public tends to be overwhelmingly negative, because basically we're kind of raining on folks' parades. As time goes on, the Muhammad Ali's and all the people that raised those issues, they then become heroes later when people reflect on the courage they showed and the issues that they raised. And Donald Trump is in danger of being a more and more reviled figure as the years go on.
I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Long ago I left heroics to the heroes
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over. " "Not to me. Not to them.
I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.
Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals
The memories of those who perished in the Warsaw Uprising cry out across the decades, and few are clearer than the memories of those who died to build and defend the Jerusalem Avenue crossing. Those heroes remind us that the West was saved with the blood of patriots; that each generation must rise up and play their part in its defense - and that every foot of ground, and every last inch of civilization, is worth defending with your life.
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
Crowds speak in heroes.
We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.
You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words