Pastoral Resources

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

Being around all the great names of the game at a young age because they were my heroes; the fact this meant so much to Canada. It was just an incredible thing to be a part of.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

Heroes can be sweet.

Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in Rio Bravo.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.