#People Quotes #World Quotes #Body Quotes
“Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and the universe.”
“It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.”
“There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.”
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”
“Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!”
“What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.”
“Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.”
“One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’”
Khalid Yasin
Nouman Ali Khan Instructor