National Comic Book Day 2020: Popular Quotes From Your Favorite Comic Characters

National Comic Book Day is celebrated annually in the United States on Sept. 25 to honor comic creators, artists and books.

Though the origin of the celebration is not known, comic book fans and artists get together on this day to participate in events across the country.

Here are a few popular quotes from favorite comic characters, courtesy Ranker and the Odyssey Online:

• "Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue, if you can pacify, and don’t raise a hand at all, until you’ve extended it." – Wonder Woman
• "The world of full of exceptional people. The people in the world who do kindness, or search for the truth despite their lives being at risk. The engineers, the teachers, the doctors, and adoptive parents, the scholars and the firemen, and yes, the journalists. People who risk everything for the sake of others and those who simply try to help those whose needed be greater than their own. Those people inspire me, not the other way around." – Superman
• "This is saying our generation will never matter. But we have to matter. If we don't, there is no future worth saving." – Ms. Marvel
• "Being the best you can be, that's doable. That's possible for anybody if they put their mind to it." – Carol Danvers
• "True happiness is found along a middle road. There lies the balance and the harmony-- with reason and emotion, not at war but hand in hand." – Aquaman
• "Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world – 'No, YOU move.'" – Captain America