Kathryn Harrison Quotes

I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.

Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

The martyr cannot be dishonored, every lash inflicted is a tongue of flame, every prison a more illustrious abode.

Martyrdom does not end something. It is only the beginning.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

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

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Men, today we die a little.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on.

Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.