Rick Riordan Quotes

The gods need heroes. They always have.

But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!

Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.

Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them.

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought.

The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things we never get.

Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.

I've never been compared to Bugs Bunny and that's amazing, thank you.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

I turned to Annabeth and shook my head in exasperation. “Always Hercules. What is it with Hercules?” Annabeth shrugged. “He had a great publicist.

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. "You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled his eyes. "You liked that Orpheus fellow too. Look how well that turned out.

This book is dedicated to all of my friends who helped me get to where I am today - you know who you are... and when I find you I am going to kill you.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which were refreshing and open. But at this point, with the distrust that's there and the disillusionment with leadership that is so acute, we need some kind of a focus on taking the irony out and taking the anti-hero element away.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.