quotes about American Hero

last updated: November 28, 2023

The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me.
-- T. J. Oshie

Source : "T.J. Oshie: Five Things to Know About the U.S. Hockey Star" by Andrea Billups, people.com. February 15, 2014.

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“Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]”
“Laypeople are a kind of nuclear energy in the Church on a spiritual level. A layperson caught up with the gospel and living next to other people can "contaminate" two others, and these two, four others, etc. Since lay Christians number not only tens of thousands like the clergy but hundreds of millions, they can truly play a decisive role in spreading the beneficial light of the gospel in the world.”
“I don't drink much alcohol. If it doesn't taste like candy or sparkles, I usually don't drink it.”
“If California is any indicator, I'm proud that the public here saw right through it and registered in record numbers and voted in record numbers.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.”
“All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.”

Source : Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat”, p.24, Macmillan
“I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.”
“I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.”
“A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.”

Source : IGN For Men interview, www.ign.com. March 10, 2002.