"I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy."

-- Jim Lovell

#Airplane Quotes #Boys Quotes #Years Quotes

“My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.”
“I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.”

Source : Interview in "Hedda Hoppers Hollywood", 1945.
“No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.”
“I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.”

Source : Terri Irwin (2008). “Steve & Me”, p.227, Simon and Schuster
“Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.”
“Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.”
“Children like yourselves are full of magic, but the men have turned, they've lost their magic to the fear and hatred they harbor for all that they can't explain, control, or understand.”

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