Quotes About The Air Force Academy

#1. I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.

Luca Parmitano

#2. The guidelines say all the right things, ... They address all the issues that were raised as problems at the Air Force Academy. The major question is, how will be they become a reality A lot of the people implementing this are the people who violated it.

Abraham Foxman

#3. We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.

Kelsang Gyatso

#4. There are always going to be things you don't like about yourself or reasons to compare yourself to others, but once you realize that you only get one you, it's best to just love yourself.

Naya Rivera

#5. He dropped his pants and went at it looking like Winnie-the-Pooh in his red polo shirt.

Jodie Beau

#6. We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.

Herbert Spencer

#7. The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.

Jim Webb

#8. Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.

Richelle Mead

#9. Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.

Mitt Romney

#10. When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.

Emily Robison

#11. The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.

Arthur Laffer

#12. The material creation was made by God to be developed, cultivated, and cared for in an endless number of ways through human labor. But even the simplest of these ways is important. Without them all, human life cannot flourish.

Timothy Keller

#13. The essential form of knowledge ... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

Francis Bacon

#14. You have spoken and we have listened, but no, Ms. Theron,it isn't appropriate for us to ask Nathan to take his shirt off. That isn't what we had in mind when we started asking for input.

Kirt J. Boyd

#15. In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

Karl Barth

#16. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

Aaron Swartz

#17. Church isn't perfect. It's practice.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#18. I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#19. If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Victor Hugo

#20. Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Beah Richards

#21. If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.

Burt Reynolds