History Quote by Alan Shepard Download Open image “I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.” — Alan Shepard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Pieces
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.... — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life. — Thomas Schlamme Copy Share Image
Sometimes, history sneaks up on you. And sometimes you know it's coming. — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
“If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.” — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here. — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's absolutely no drag, so… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
