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  • The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

    Mother   Hero   Rights  
  • My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I've always been a fan of his writing, and I feel like he's one of our unsung heroes. He's been pretty much forgotten, and I think he needs to be recognized. He had to go all the way to Europe to find recognition and acceptance, and I'd just like to bring him to the forefront.

    Dream   Hero   Writing  
  • Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes

    Hero   Jazz   Kenny  
  • The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save lives and to rebuild communities. In this they joined countless people around the world who volunteer every day in response to 'silent crises'. These often unsung heroes understand all too well that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis.

  • In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

    Mother   Lonely   Teacher  
    Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”
  • I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe and Charles had, though. See, I want to be the kind of best friends who make love every night, who share all their darkest secrets and favorite jokes, and maybe even someday make babies together. I know that kind of friendship requires hard work, but you know, I'm pretty good at hard work. ~ Tom Paoletti, "The Unsung Hero

    Baby   Hero   Hard Work  
    Suzanne Brockmann (2003). “The Unsung Hero”, p.393, Ballantine Books
  • Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

    "Q&A – Brent Sexton (Stan Larsen)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.
  • I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.

    Hero   Reality   Moles  
  • Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley
  • Of course, we have leaders in the African American community as well that we've all worked with. One of the great rewards of being an activist is that you get to meet all these wonderful people. And there are many unsung heroes. There are so many out there that are good people that are working hard.

    Hero   People   Community  
    Source: www.sdfoundation.org
  • I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

    Teacher   Jobs   Hero  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these challenges in their communities, volunteering to make a difference. They remain the true champions of our work towards the Millennium Development Goals.

  • As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.

    Stupid   Humorous   Hero  
    George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion
  • A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

    "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.
  • One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.

    Hero   Men   Design  
    Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.
  • There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

    "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.
  • There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

    Moving   Hero   Men  
  • Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.

    Hero   Rays   Unsung Hero  
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