#heroes

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

Heroes can be sweet. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#sweet

On the second floor was the office in which Houston pounded an ancient typewriter with two fingers, always setting an example of unceasing hard work for his admiring students. They had no hint of the fact that their hard-driving dean had contracted tuberculosis while serving as a GI in France in Word War I. Houstan always seemed vibrant and impassioned in the chase for justice as he tried to expose his students to everything relating to the law that might give them an advantage. . . . "I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston," Marshal told me. "I saw this man's dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, 'You either shape up or ship out.' When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can't ship out." So Houston rescued Marshall and launched him into a career as one of the greatest lawyers in American history. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#endurance #heroes #inspiration #strength #dreams

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked. ↗

— Michael Caine

#blond #blond hair #boy #cool #created

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor. ↗

— Bob Feller

#bullet #come #dice #go #hear

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not. ↗

— Bob Feller

#back #come #hero #heroes #home

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs. ↗

— Lee Child

#authors #better #care #considerably #female

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#any #big #big fan #count #crazy

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#faithful #heroes #mind #minds #mirrors

How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I can't get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. These scientists are American heroes. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#down #enough #fantastic #get #got