#heroes

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#become #called #could #had #heroes

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#contract #gold #gold medal #heroes #medal

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#heroes #our #ourselves #own #rescue

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#another way #care #create #problems #really

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. ↗

— Will Rogers

#because #curb #go #heroes #sit

No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#back #britain #camp #exists #going

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ↗

— Maya Angelou

#heroes #how #important #our #recognize

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#big #grew #had #heroes #his

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes. ↗

— Robert Goulet

#heroes #joe #joe louis #louis

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#boxed #either #heroes #into #life