Ordinary Heroes

Ordinary Heroes may refer to:

  • Ordinary Heroes (film), a 1999 Chinese film directed by Ann Hui
  • Ordinary Heroes (album), an album by Howard Jones
  • Ordinary Heroes (novel), a novel by Scott Turow
  • Ordinary Heroes (nonfiction), a World War II book by Steve Wagner and Sharon Wells Wagner
  • Ordinary Heroes (1986 film), a film featuring Doris Roberts

Famous quotes containing the words ordinary and/or heroes:

    “There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education often labors to silence and obstruct.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The apple tree has been celebrated by the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and Scandinavians. Some have thought that the first human pair were tempted by its fruit. Goddesses are fabled to have contended for it, dragons were set to watch it, and heroes were employed to pluck it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)