Pastoral Resources

It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.