#heroes

Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard's lyrics, or on the pages in the Library ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #heroes #role-models

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ↗

— John Adams

#birds #children #converse #domestic #heroes

Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself. Something changed in Saffron at that moment. She knew all about feeling left out.... That was why she wanted her angel so badly; proof that she mattered as much as anyone else. "I couldn't really climb the wall," she said. "And if I could, what if I got caught? What would I say?" "You'd think of something." "No. It was a stupid idea. Let's try your way, early in the morning." "Before breakfast?" "Yes. All right Mission Control?" "All right," said Sarah. "All right, Superhero. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#heroes #left-out #change

I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read. ↗

— Rodman Philbrick

#book #dreams #hero #heroes #old-man

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#age #done #ever #heroes #last

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#awful #face #god #heroes #humanity

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

#every #hero #heroes #his #i

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#harder #heroes #necessary #older #sort

Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#bring #decent #east #fighting #heroes

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives. ↗

— Chris Hemsworth

#growing #growing up #heroes #lives #parents