#hero

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen. ↗

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

#inspirational #prejudice #education

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#figures #generation #grand #heroes #history

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#aide #association #because #becoming #being

You mustn't fall in love with your own hero. ↗

— Lee Child

#hero #love #mustn #own #you

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#every #every day #gift #given #grateful

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#been #dad #ethical #great #handsome

People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized-not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. Inwardly, Bruce Wayne is still an adolescent watching his parents being murdered. That will never leave him. And people really relate to that. ↗

— Kevin Conroy

#adolescent #audience #batman #being #bruce

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#churchill #cynical #day #decades #every

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#book #contingent #first #form #heroine

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#american #archetypal #dean #dirty #every