A Quote by Kevin Costner

If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.

Kevin Costner

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Kevin Costner
American - Actor
Born: January 18, 1955

(The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

Russell Simmons

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

Sean Covey

Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.

Martha Beck

There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

Michael Shanks

Theres a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

Michael Shanks

In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.

Ken Schoolland

When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down.

Frederick Lenz

Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.

Jeffrey R. Holland

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

bell hooks

And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony.

Eminem

What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.

Trent Reznor

We started tearing down the seniority system on Capitol Hill. All of that begins in the '70s. It accelerates and continues in the '90s, and it's going on to this day.