Rockets Quotes - Page 6

• You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

  Adam Rapp

  Running, Sky, Forever

  Adam Rapp (2011). “33 Snowfish”, p.45, Candlewick Press

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• It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous world of electronics, ushering in the telephone, the radio and television. It was the White Race, who in a combined burst of energy and genius sent rockets to the moon and planted the feet of the White Man on extra-terrestrial territory in the last decade.

  Ben Klassen

  Moon, Men, Race

  "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, 1973.

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• Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

  Merle Shain

  Moon, Names, Moments

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Airports

  "Information minister: Iraq still controls airport". www.cnn.com. April 6, 2003.

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• At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo - slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.

  Bernard Cooper

  Space, Black, One Day

  Bernard Cooper (1996). “Truth serum: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.

  Sergey Biryuzov

  Country, Enemy, Flight

  "Military Deception and Strategic Surprise". Book by John Gooch, Amos Perlmutter, 1982.

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• No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than the buzz bombs and the rockets that Werner von Braun designed for a German victory, a weapon absolutely decisive, in the judgement of many, in winning the war for the Allies.

  Peter Hilton

  War, Math, Winning

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• It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

  Cesar Chavez

  Moon, Oil, Giving

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.144, Penguin

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• When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the centuries that the children of Israel had longed to return to their ancient homeland. When I went to Sderot and saw the daily struggle to survive in the eyes of an eight-year-old boy who lost his leg to a Hamas rocket, and when I walked among the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, I was reminded of the existential fear of Israelis when a modern dictator seeks nuclear weapons and threatens to wipe Israel off the face of the map - face of the Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Prayer, Children, Wall

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• It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

  Alan Bean

  Seems

  "Astronaut-turned-artist Alan Bean still reaching for the moon". www.cnn.com. July 16, 1999.

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• To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Strong, Guitar

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• Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Views, Sea, Passing On

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• We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.

  Burt Rutan

  Kids, Eye, Sometimes

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• Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles, airplanes, rockets, nuclear weapons, satellites, or space exploration. There's a lot they didn't know about. It would be interesting to see what kind of document they'd draft today. Just keeping it frozen in time won't hack it.

  Ross Perot

  Airplane, Space, Interesting

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• The difference, generally speaking, between sportbike people and cruiser people is that sportbike people like performance skill and wear safety gear; cruisers like chrome, noise, and style. It's funny to me to separate them because I ride both. I prefer performance cruisers like the Honda Valkyrie I had or my Triumph Rocket III.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Skills, Differences, People

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• We realized that YouTube is a rocket ship and that this is an incredibly big space. I started agitating for it. I was the most passionate voice for acquiring YouTube: 'The price tag seems really high, but it is going to be worth it.

  Salar Kamangar

  Price Tag, Voice, Space

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• Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Integrity

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• Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Feelings

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• I mean, when you think about it, it's 'bombs bursting in air,' 'rocket's red glare,' it's all kinds of - you know a lot of national anthems are that way, too - all kinds of military jargon, and the land - there's only one phrase 'the land of the free,' which is kind of nice, and 'the home of the brave?' I don't know....Are we the only ones who are brave on the planet? I mean, all the brave people live here I mean, it's just stupid, I think. I'm embarrassed, I'm embarrassed every time I hear it.

  Bill Press

  Military, Nice, Stupid

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• For me, a rocket is only a means--only a method of reaching the depths of space--and not an end in itself... There's no doubt that it's very important to have rocket ships since they will help mankind to settle elsewhere in the universe. But what I'm working for is this resettling... The whole idea is to move away from the Earth to settlements in space.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Moving, Mean, Ideas

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• I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.

  Perry Farrell

  Mean, And Love, Firsts

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days.

  Lady Gaga

  Strong, Passion, Sleep

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• For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden falls. I have most faith in the individual or enterprise that advances step by step. A mushroom can spring up in a day; an oak takes 50 years or more to reach maturity. Mushrooms don't last; oaks do. The real cause for an enormous number of business failures is premature over-expansion, attempting to gallop before learning to creep. Sudden successes often invite sudden reverses.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Spring, Real

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• In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that's 12 goals conceded

  Alan Brazil

  Work Out, Goal, Four

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• All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art... skill has nothing to do with technical proficiency... I'm interested in people who rethink skill, who redefine or reimagine it: an engineer, say, who builds rockets from rocks.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Crazy, Rocks

  "The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos: A Renaissance of Romanticism in Modernity" by Pietros Maneos, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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