Alan Shepard Quotes

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

Alan Shepard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: astronaut
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1923 - July 21, 1998

Topics

HistoryTalentSpaceBookBelieve

There are always ridiculous things on television or on the Internet that make people go, 'Did you see that?' That could be anything from a clip from the 'Real Housewives' to someone jumping off their roof and missing the pool to a zillion other things.

Joel McHale

PeopleInternetSomeoneYouPoolGo

We are the only animal that tells stories.

John Landgraf

AnimalOnlyStoriesTells

I don't want to take the escalators. Give me the stairs that have the dips and the two old ladies that are blocking it and they've got an attitude, and they don't want you to go past them.

RJ Cyler

AttitudePastMeYouStairsWant

If you love movies, then you love America.

Mathieu Amalric

LoveAmericaYouMoviesThen

I didn't go to my prom. I didn't go to my homecoming.

Russ

GoPromHomecoming

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

Lucille Ball

HomeChildrenPicturesOutStayGet

If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.

Brad Pitt

WorkWifeWantGoing

I tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.

Bruce Rauner

BestThinkPrinciplesConservative

The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.

Ariel Sharon

GreatDayPeopleSurviveFindWill

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.

Sylvia Earle

NatureLiveSeaWaterYouEarth

We are as old as we feel. And while I never feel my calendar age, I often feel my Leaper age. And I'll go with that. Because life is not something to be run down like a counter nor counted as it runs you down. It is an experience, and we can choose to live it as we will.

Rick Tumlinson

LifeLiveAgeExperienceYouChoose

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

Muqtada al Sadr

PoliticalWillWayPoliticiansDeal

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