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Burt Rutan Quotes

We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.

Burt Rutan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 17, 1943

Topics

Eye Blind Dangerous Sometimes Kids

We have made tremendous progress. But there are still too many kids in our country who grow up feeling like they have to hold on to this secret about who they are because, if anyone finds out it, could cost them everything.

Jim Gray

Progress Grow Feeling Country Secret

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

Jez Butterworth

Love Past Present Seeing Feeling

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

Tom Chatfield

Education Art Best Focus Teachers

I can't talk about the education of black children if I ignored two of my nieces who were a couple of grade levels behind. I believe that charity begins at home, and I take seriously the role of a godfather to fill the gap when the parents aren't doing their job.

Roland Martin

Education Home Children Job Parents

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I Am Trying Out Cannot Full Which

It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever.

Lucy Larcom

Live Beautiful Childhood Facts Human

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

Joseph Hume

Land Because Valuable England Spot

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Don Marquis

Funny People Believe Responsible Who

I'm not Blockbuster Boy.

Johnny Depp

Boy Blockbuster

I don't think my music has changed to reflect getting married or having kids. But... if you want to continue to write your own songs, you've got to find deeper stuff to write about. You've got to go to different places.

Dierks Bentley

Music Think You Find Go Want

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

Chris Isaak

Me Natural Bother Ham Perform

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

Chuck Close

Family Memory Friends And Family Face