#hero

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#fallen #heroes #individually #invoke #our

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#hand #heroes #kids #make #movies

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#allow #case #characters #childhood #comics

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. ↗

— Aristide Briand

#battle #because #conservation #country #field

Heroes can be sweet. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#sweet

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#depends #heroism #men #strong #system

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#each #face #hero #his #light

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#father #hero #him #i #like

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#affords #cherokee #entire #homes #indians

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes. ↗

— Ken Burns

#always #characters #films #focus #ford