Heroic Figures Quotes

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

They will form citizens, heroes and geniuses.

Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish. ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

I think of the Avengers as The Beatles, and the Guardians are the Rolling Stones. That is really how I feel about the groups.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

Nations need heroes, for heroes make the nation believe that the impossible is possible.

Gallant heroes lived before Agamemnon, not a few; but on all alike, unwept and unknown, eternal night lies heavy because they lack a sacred poet.

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

I'm a sucker for hero worship.

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.

All heroes are shadows of Christ

I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

Every manly icon the West has ever admired has embodied the very spirit of American independence.

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, John Wayne - these men had the code of the West.