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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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of occasions when I've given speeches to corporations where he'd have a good... He'd give me some good information.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Couple Quotes , Hero Quotes

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Hero Quotes

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Hero Quotes , Long Quotes

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Hero Quotes

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Hero Quotes , Honor Quotes

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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

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

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Time Quotes , Hero Quotes

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

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

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Regret Quotes , Hero Quotes

Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Hero Quotes , Responsibility Quotes

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Hero Quotes , Men Quotes

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

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

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Hero Quotes , Men Quotes

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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Tags : Aeriel Miranda Quotes , Hero Quotes , Grandmother Quotes

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Hero Quotes , Greatness Quotes

Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Hero Quotes , Angel Quotes

I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Hero Quotes , Practice Quotes

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Hero Quotes , Greek Quotes

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