“If anyone's destined for greatness, it's you son. You owe the world your gifts. You just have to figure out how to use them. And know that wherever they take you, we'll always be here. So come on home Peter. You're my hero, and I love you.”— Cliff Robertson, Ben Parker, amazon.com
“I was in the neighborhood. I needed to see a friendly face. I took two buses and a cab to get in the neighborhood, but...”— Tobey Maguire, Peter, amazon.com
“Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.”— Tobey Maguire, amazon.com
“He knows a hero when he sees one. Too few characters out there, flying around like that, saving old girls like me. And Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream the…”— Alvin Sargent, May Parker, Rosemary Harris, imdb.com
“He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.”— Jim Gordon, amazon.com
“I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Only a fool is never afraid. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“People think they know all there is to know about you, but the best bits of you are — have always been — heroic in the really quiet ways.”— Jack Thorne, Ginny Weasley, amazon.com
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is ba…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.”— Eva Rice, amazon.com
“If we keep our heroes at a safe distance, they cannot disappoint us with the banal business of being people. But part of growing up is accepting that everybody is people.”— Aishwarya Subramanyam, huffingtonpost.in
“What life I have I owe to him. I was nobody to Glenn, just some idiot stuck in a tank. He could have walked away, but he didn't. Neither will I.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“Sometimes the hero of the fairy tale isn't a handsome prince. Sometimes it's you.”— Zoe Sugg, amazon.com
“Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down.”— Craig Ferguson, amazon.com