![I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-dont-want-to-be-considered-a-hero-imagine-if-young-people-would-grow-up.jpg)
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growing-up hero past
Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special. Brett Lee
growing-up book mean
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop. Barbara Kingsolver
growing-up eras jordan
It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era. Bailey Chase
growing-up dad ideas
My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time. Brenda Song
growing-up distance heart
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up. Brendan Fehr
growing-up men thinking
I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin. Jane Campion
growing-up growing jazz
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music. Jan Hammer
growing-up children silly
A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things. Janet Jackson
growing-up fun moving
It's great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family. Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. I was raised on meat and cheese, so I've had enough for anyone's normal life span. Ariana Grande
hero thinking guitar
I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture. Brett Ratner
hero kids dont-care
It doesnt matter about money and fame and whatever. I really dont care about that. My thing is, Im happy that Im able to have kids have a hero and have someone that they can look up to. Atticus Shaffer
hero people lust
No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again. Charles R. Swindoll
hero film made
Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25. Charles Dance
heroes life suffering
There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts. Albert Schweitzer
hero casting directors
Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business. Brent Sexton
hero thinking care
If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero. Barry Eisler
hero skills sick
I'm sick of over-trained heroes. I'm really bored with that. Guys that are just ripped to shreds and full of skills. That's boring me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon. Now I'm interested. That's my hero. Bruce Campbell
hero race firefighter
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. Alphonse de Lamartine
helping-others helping proportion
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great. Booker T. Washington
helping-others survival helping
Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others. Elie Wiesel
helping-others survival may
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
helping-others effort praise
So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts Siddha Nagarjuna
helping-others joy deeds
Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Every day do a good deed that will put a mile of joy on someone's face. Dale Carnegie
helping-others opportunity equal-pay
I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that. Amy Poehler
helping-others woe-is-me volunteer
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. Alexander Pope
helping-others men generosity
A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others. Andrew Carnegie
helping-others discovery brain
Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries. Rita Levi-Montalcini