Heidi Hammel Quotes

I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level push on it, is if some other country, perhaps China, were to actually have a landed flight to the moon and brought back our American flag and put it in Tiananmen Square.

Heidi Hammel

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• For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Moon
  • Interest
  • Deeper

• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

  

  Hal Borland
  • High
  • Night
  • Summer

• The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Best
  • Moon
  • Successful

• The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Moon
  • Presidential

• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Moon
  • Stars
  • Jealousy

• Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Men
  • American

• I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Life
  • Men
  • Husband

• The moon belongs to everyone. The best things in life they're free. Stars belong to everyone. They cling there for you and for me.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Things
  • Moon
  • Stars

• The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Up
  • Good
  • Sun

• The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the Night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• Though the night was made for loving,And the day returns too soon,Yet we'll go no more a rovingBy the light of the moon.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Night
  • Light
  • Moon

• It was early one morning on a calm sea, off Guatemala, when over my couch - a coil of rope - I saw the beginning of a fiery red sunrise on one side and the moon looking like a silver coin on the other.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Morning
  • Beginning
  • Red

• I have ridden the mighty moon-worm!

  

  Al Gore
  • Moon

• You... you are as old as the Mamre oak, ancient interrogator of the moon, whose feigned groans cannot take us in. You write laws of iron.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Moon

• Don't think, feel....it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Moon

• There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

  

  Matsuo Basho
  • Moon

• If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.

  

  James Woods
  • Moon
  • Fence

• I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Time
  • Moon
  • Silly

• And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Moon
  • Veil
  • Sickle

• The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Science
  • California
  • Engineering

• There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Reality
  • Free
  • Imagination

• What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Mother
  • Question
  • Order

• One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Children
  • House
  • Winter

• I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level push on it, is if some other country, perhaps China, were to actually have a landed flight to the moon and brought back our American flag and put it in Tiananmen Square.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Moon
  • Apollo
  • Spaceflight