#heroes

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#custer #dead #had #heroes #horse

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes. ↗

— Hollis Stacy

#american #attitude #daughters #doctors #feel

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#battles #character #country #fallen #fought

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#garcia #great #heroes #two #yeats

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#back #heroes #live #momentum #narrow

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes. ↗

— Robert Cray

#because #hendrix #heroes #i #jimi

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#been #bravo #could #directed #directors

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives. ↗

— Boris Becker

#good #hero #heroes #i #kind

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#believe #entertained #every #fantastic #i

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#center #give #heroes #human #human rights