"When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it"

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Wally Schirra

#People Quotes #Said Quotes #Landing Quotes

“The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!”
“Life and existence have no value in themselves. We mean nothing; not even those who are needed mean anything. The only thing of real value is what we produce.”

Source : Ninni Holmqvist (2010). “The Unit”, p.107, Oneworld Publications
“I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched, many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry - eating in late September.”

Source : Galway Kinnell (2001). “A New Selected Poems”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In every moment of every day of my life, I get to wake up and work with amazing people and nurture them in the way that I might have nurtured my son or my grandchildren that he might have had.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“You have to be able to accept failure to get better.”
“It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.”
“Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor.”

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