Homer Hickam famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.
-- Homer Hickam

#Country #Teacher #Parent
I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.
-- Homer Hickam

#Want #Matter #Reason
Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.
-- Homer Hickam

#Optimistic #People #Mind
A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!
-- Homer Hickam

#Light #Rockets
I didnâ€™t careâ€¦about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.
-- Homer Hickam

#Wall #Real #Hero
There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.
-- Homer Hickam

#Men #Two #Want
It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
-- Homer Hickam

#Ignorance
I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.
-- Homer Hickam

#Brother #Children #Years
Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.
-- Homer Hickam

#Doe #World #Easy
A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.
-- Homer Hickam

#Men #Soul #Darkness

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