Heroic

Famous quotes containing the word heroic:

“The drinking and fighting of the Heroic Age have retreated to the slums.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art and poetry, in all its periods from the Heroic and Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Morning brings back the heroic ages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)