John Glenn Quotes

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John Glenn

Profession : Astronaut

Birth : July 18, 1921

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

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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.

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There is still no cure for the common birthday.

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An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

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It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

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I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.

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

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I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.

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Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.

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As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.

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I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

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To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit.

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You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

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The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.

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The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.

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

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You can't relive your life.

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Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.

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When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

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In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.

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