Quotes of: War-hero Keyword

The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

Tomorrow, When the War Began

As anywhere else, political instability provided an opportunity for local scores to be settled, for personal grievances to be aired, for heroes to be acclaimed and discarded, giving full reign to the fickle fortunes of war.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

During the few months Troy had been back home, he’d told his friends about us, and so we quickly eased into the conversation as though we’d all known each other for many years. They embarrassed us with great thanks for having served overseas. The...

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is ...

The Poems Of Wilfred Owen

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

Jim Ramstad

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

Jim Walsh

He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.

War and Peace

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Steven Spielberg

A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two. Two is enough. Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right. Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last.

Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.

Mary Horlock

I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.

Dave Pelzer

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.

The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.

The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War

War did not come like a hurricane, Rorimer realized, destroying everything in its path. It came like a tornado, touching down in patches, taking with it one life while leaving the next person unharmed.

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?" Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-han...

The Sea of Monsters

Without war there are no heroes." "What harm would that be?" "Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

Lavinia

As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.

Jon Porter

Never say war insane at the moment for you to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.

Auliq Ice

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

E. W. Howe

Song of myself With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battl...

Walt Whitman

We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.

John Singleton