#hero

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#began #christians #crowd #define #did

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken. ↗

— Martha Stewart

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #broken #hero

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#falling #falling in love #grew #heroes #i

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#always #attracted #because #camera #comedians

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#dad #forth #hero #him #i

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#heroine #i #life #need #saved

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times. ↗

— Levon Helm

#bands #conway #couple #did #good

For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #page- #will-herondale

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads. ↗

— William Bell

#around #ballads #cole #enough #frank

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#languages #most #revolution #word