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Amy Fowler Kane1 quote
Don't try to be a hero! You don't have to be a hero, not for me! — Amy Fowler Kane · 1952Eversmann1 quote
Nobody asks to be a hero...it just sometimes turns out that way. — Eversmann · 2001F. Scott Fitzgerald1 quote
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1940John Updike1 quote
Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the others players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he refused. Gods do not answer letters. — John Updike · 1960Pericles1 quote
Fix your eyes on the greatness of Athens as you have it before you day by day, fall in love with her, and when you feel her great, remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action... So they gave their bodies to the commonwealth and received each for his own memory, praise that will never die, and with it the grandest of all memorials, not that in which their mortal bones are laid, but a home in the minds of men, where their glory remains fresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes fresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes by. For the whole earth is the memorial of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. — Pericles · 430 BCRonald Reagan1 quote
Those who say that we're in a time when there are not heroes, they just don't know where to look. — Ronald Reagan · 1981The Babe1 quote
Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you'll never go wrong. — The Babe · 1993William Somerset1 quote
But you gotta be a, a hero. You want to be a champion. Well, let me tell you, people don't want a champion. They want to eat cheeseburgers, play the lotto, and watch television. — William Somerset · 1995