Jeremiah Denton Quotes

#1. I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.

Joe Lhota

#2. It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

Robert Fulghum

#3. As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

Jennifer Granholm

#4. The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

Jeremiah Denton

#5. If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. There's no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

Frank Herbert

#6. Has any film ever been made that's better than the worst episode of Columbo?

Richard Ayoade

#7. Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me.

Jeremiah Denton

#8. While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE ... TORTURE ...

Jeremiah Denton

#9. We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America.

Jeremiah Denton

#10. Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day.

Caroline Myss

#11. One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.

Marty Rubin

#12. We envy people like you, and we want to be you; we can't, so we destroy you.

Azar Nafisi

#13. Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down

Kat Kaelin

#14. The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the central importance of the family unit have decayed and disintegrated.

Jeremiah Denton

#15. I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before?

Jeremiah Denton

#16. Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence our protector, whom or what shall we fear?

Jeremiah Denton

#17. The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself.

Jeremiah Denton

#18. I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced that the next day would be my last on earth, and I felt no bitterness. God had given me a full life.

Jeremiah Denton

#19. I think," Jace said, "that you don't want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because ...

Cassandra Clare

#20. A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

Jeremiah Denton

#21. My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.

Jeremiah Denton

#22. To the rear, sir - he's lost his leg!

Mark Twain

#23. Founded on faith in God, the United States has been blessed as no other nation.

Jeremiah Denton

#24. Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.

Giacomo Casanova