Alan Shepard Quotes

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

Alan Shepard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeGoodBelieveYouBackPilot

My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.

Joe Dante

HomeTimeFunThinkGenerationYou

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

Amanda Lindhout

ChangeConfidenceWomenGainSeen

Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.

Stephen Curry

GameWayBallShootingOwnShoot

Hatta always gave the impression of rain. If I was in a real good mood and full of ideas and then happened to encounter Hatta, I felt I was suddenly surprised by a shower of rain and got wet all over the body. My good mood was gone, and also my ideas.

Sukarno

GoodRainIdeasBodyMoodReal

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Simone de Beauvoir

SocietyIndividualProfitableFarHe

Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.

Mike Fitzpatrick

AmericanResultFlagHiddenProperty

All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how.

Michael Specter

FoodQuestionEatCornRiceHere

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

Mireille Enos

HoustonUpPrettySettingGrew

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Jean de la Bruyere

FutureChildrenPastPresentEnjoy

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

Jason Bateman

FreedomBoxObligationRatherThan

People didn't go on YouTube to get famous back when I started.

Colleen Ballinger

PeopleFamousBackGoYouTubeGet

I get typecast as doctors, principals, middle-management-type guys - which, when you look at me, you realize is completely against my physical characteristics. I should be an action hero. So I don't understand what's going on.

Brian Huskey

HeroMeActionYouLookUnderstand

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