2007-01-17 16:10:43 · 15 answers · asked by sarahpsdad 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
cowards die a thousand deaths,heros only once.
2007-01-17 16:14:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My favorite one is from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar":
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."
And there was one other one I read once, but I cannot quote it for you, as it is buried somewhere in a magazine. It was from Newsweek Magazine, and it was the first issue that came out after 11 September 2001. In an article about the attacks, the journalist wrote something like:
We tend to think of heroism as something that happens only on battlefields, but we now know that true heroism is also running into a collapsing building when everyone around you is running out.
I am sorry, it's a poor paraphrase of a great quote that I should have saved but didn't.
2007-01-18 00:37:36 · answer #2 · answered by Bronwen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy." F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. The people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
2007-01-18 06:14:48 · answer #3 · answered by blonde_bubbles89 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From the lips of almost every person who has done an heroic act, (saving the life of another at the risk of their own life etc.)
"I don't really think I am a hero, I just did what needed to be done."
or things to that effect.
2007-01-19 17:34:48 · answer #4 · answered by thankyou "iana" 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"To the German Commander, "Nuts!" The American Commander."
General McAuliffe - 101st Airborne
Please read the link for further on this quote of heroism
http://www.thedropzone.org/europe/Bulge/kinnard.html
2007-01-18 00:16:12 · answer #5 · answered by sgtgregg 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Heroes are found everywhere
A herois that person who says he is not hungry when he knows there's not enough pie to go around
2007-01-18 00:57:33 · answer #6 · answered by sushobhan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes
out of the scantiest material." -Gerald White Johnson
2007-01-18 00:23:05 · answer #7 · answered by bdbdbd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"A hero is simply someone who rises above his own human weaknesses, for an hour, a day, a year, to do something stirring."
-- Betty Deramus
2007-01-18 07:07:56 · answer #8 · answered by bballfan81 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
never before in the field of human conflic was so much owed by so many to so few - winston churchill
2007-01-18 00:15:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
" Float like a butterfly sting like a bee" By Muhammad Ali.
2007-01-18 00:13:22 · answer #10 · answered by Phlow 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
antihero
why save the world when you can rule it!!!
(goldeneye rogue agent. on the game case)
2007-01-18 15:25:13 · answer #11 · answered by eddybear 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋