Aisha Hinds Quotes, Hero Quotes, Book Quotes

There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman. That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.

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My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.

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If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

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Tags : A. J. P. Taylor Quotes , Strong Quotes , Hero Quotes

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Hero Quotes , Heart Quotes

Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.

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I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Hero Quotes , Heaven Quotes

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

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Tags : Abigail Adams Quotes , Hero Quotes , Heart Quotes

I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Hero Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

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I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hero Quotes , Greek Quotes

Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.

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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Mother Quotes , Hero Quotes

Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Hero Quotes , Should Quotes

Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Hero Quotes , Class Quotes

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hero Quotes , World Quotes

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Hero Quotes , Tree Quotes