“It was sort of the beginning of celebrity in a way. They felt the heroes were all the people who died over there. They felt terrible about being singled out.”
Clint Eastwood
“This event is designed to let all of our military families, active service people, veterans and other everyday heroes know how much they mean to our country and community,”
Gary Moore
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
Maya Angelou
“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.”
Albert Einstein
“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”
Frank Miller
“Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go”
Bernard Malamud
