Top 45 Quotes About John Glenn

#1. To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.

John Glenn

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#2. That was a real fireball.

John Glenn

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#3. We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them and bring them back. That's not the purpose of this program ... Space is a laboratory, and we go into it to work and learn the new.

John Glenn

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#4. Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round. Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John Glenn. He orbited the earth when he was an astronaut. Dogbert: So, your theory depends on the honesty of politicians. Dilbert: Yes ... no, wait ...

Scott Adams

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#5. By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.

John Glenn

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#6. I love the John Glenn model ... I may call NASA in 25 years or so, and see if they'd like to send me to Mars.

Sally Ride

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#7. Zero G and I feel fine.

John Glenn

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#8. Love is a combination of friendship, passion, and respect.

John Glenn

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#9. I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

John Glenn

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#10. With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.

Glenn Reynolds

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#11. Americans just want us to ... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified ... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.

John Glenn

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#12. Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

Glenn Miller

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#13. Twenty-four astronauts hail from the swing state of Ohio - more than from any other state - including John Glenn (America's first to orbit Earth) and Neil Armstrong (the world's first to walk on the Moon).

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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#14. When others kid me about being bald, I simply tell them that the way I figure it, the good Lord only gave men so many hormones, and if others want to waste theirs on growing hair, that's up to them.

John Glenn

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#15. I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

John Glenn

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#16. I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

Glenn Frey

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#17. The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

John Glenn

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#18. When you're a combat pilot, you believe you're the best in the air. If you do, you're not cocky, you're combat-ready. If you don't, you'd better find another line of work.

John Glenn

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#19. I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

John Glenn

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#20. Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.

John Yarmuth

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#21. This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

John Glenn

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#22. The moment of twilight is simply beautiful.

John Glenn

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#23. I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

John Glenn

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#24. A lot of people ask ... why a man is willing to risk ... Well, we've got to do it. We're going into an age of exploration that will be bigger than anything the world has ever seen ... If a man faces up to the (unknown) and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny.

John Glenn

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#25. We are more fulfilled when we are involved in something bigger than ourselves.

John Glenn

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#26. I think a mentor gets a lot of satisfaction in a couple of ways. They're doing something constructive, so they feel good about that. And when they see the results of this, with the young people they're working with, it's very, very rewarding.

John Glenn

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#27. There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

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#28. Just because I'm 77 doesn't mean I don't have a dream.

John Glenn

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#29. There is still no cure for the common birthday.

John Glenn

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#30. To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.

John Glenn

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#31. Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

John Lennon

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#32. We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security.

John Glenn

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#33. You know, old folks can have dreams, too, as well as young folks, and then work toward them. And to have a dream like this come true for me is just a terrific experience.

John Glenn

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#34. Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

John Abercrombie

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#35. John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

Wally Schirra

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#36. John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

Bill Dedman

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#37. If there is one thing I've learned in my years on this planet, it's that the happiest and most fulfilled people I've known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest.

John Glenn

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#38. Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

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#39. As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

John Glenn

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#40. We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.

John Glenn

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#41. He was leading those who risked their lives over that bridge in Selma, not Janice Joplin, Columbia University, or a labor union. It wasn't John Lennon that taught people about love and peaceful resistance - that job fell on the shoulders of a Jewish carpenter.

Glenn Beck

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#42. I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone, awaiting blast-off, he replied, "I was thinking that the rocket has 20,000 components, and each was made by the lowest bidder."

Martin Rees

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#43. Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

John Glenn

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#44. To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

John Glenn

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#45. If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.

John Barnes

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