Homer Hickam Quotes

Coalwood, West Virginia, is the little coal-mining town where I grew up, and it was there that five other teenage boys and I famously built and launched rockets. I recounted this story in my memoir, 'Rocket Boys.'

Homer Hickam

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1943

Topics

StoryUpLittleRocketWest Virginia

I always grew up watching things transform, and a lot of that was what we would call trash.

Jeremy Scott

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The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.

Steve King

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There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.

Stanley Donen

ChangeLittle ThingsWayMoreGone

We'll go to South America and play to 60,000. It's insane.

Mike McCready

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I'm not really into musicals.

Christian Bale

MusicalsReally

The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money or the names. It's all about reflecting my life and my art.

Brian Tyree Henry

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'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.

Scott Turow

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I've got an outspoken personality, which gets people thinking, and my style of fighting is aggressive. Everything's on the line all the time. In my fights, there's drama.

Tyson Fury

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I love talking to the public, I love hearing what people have got to say.

Nicola Sturgeon

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There is absolutely a side of me that people don't know. I'm not myself on Snapchat or Instagram. That's totally not me.

Kylie Jenner

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Whenever someone says zygotes are babies, I reply: 'Imagine a thousand zygotes in test tubes in one room, and three toddlers in another. A fire breaks out, and you only have time to get to one room. Which would you save from burning - the zygotes or the children?'

Kurt Eichenwald

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I just play blues for fun.

Howlin' Wolf

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