--- title: "Best Homer Hickam Quotes" description: "Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-homer-hickam-42232.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-homer-hickam-42232.jpg) # Homer Hickam (1943) Military Flight Engineer United States **64** quotes in **284** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Homer Hickam is a military flight engineer from the United States, best known for *Carrying Albert Home*. ## Quick Facts About Homer Hickam Born February 19, 1943 Nationality United States Profession Military Flight Engineer Notable works Carrying Albert Home Known for The Far Reaches, The Coalwood Way, Rocket Boys, Back to the Moon, Sky of Stone ## About Homer Hickam Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His 1998 memoir Rocket Boys was a New York Times Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky. Hickam's body of written work also includes several additional best-selling memoirs and novels, including the "Josh Thurlow" historical fiction novels, his 2015 best-selling Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, his Wife, and her Alligator and in 2021 the sequel to Rocket Boys titled Don't Blow Yourself Up: The Further Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky. His books have been translated into many languages. ## Awards & Honors http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/b95f57cc3e0fe6fe6d4da2d97c403d17 Bronze Star Medal ## Quotes by Homer Hickam · Page 2 > [What kind of country just recycles its old money, reminisces about what used to be, and doesn't know how to weld, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/what-kind-of-country-just-recycles-its-old-money-reminisces-about/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Computers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/403/homer-hickam-10698_computers_what-kind-of-country-just-recycles-its-o_2536626.jpg) > [I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/i-have-never-been-able-to-understand-anyone-on-this-planet-who-lacks/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Able](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/able/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fda/homer-hickam-10698_able_i-have-never-been-able-to-understand-any_2472277.jpg) > [Coalwood, West Virginia, is the little coal-mining town where I grew up, and it was there that five other teenage boys and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/coalwood-west-virginia-is-the-little-coal-mining-town-where-i-grew-up/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Coal mining](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/coal-mining/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d46/homer-hickam-10698_coal-mining_coalwood-west-virginia-is-the-little-coa_2834491.jpg) > [The mining towns I describe in the 'Helium-3' novel series are not unlike Coalwood, but there is one major difference: Those towns,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/the-mining-towns-i-describe-in-the-helium-3-novel-series-are-not/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Being](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/being/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e6/homer-hickam-10698_being_the-mining-towns-i-describe-in-the-heliu_3224268.jpg) > [A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/a-lot-of-folks-just-get-it-in-their-head-that-for-instance-like/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Easy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/easy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/homer-hickam-10698_easy_a-lot-of-folks-just-get-it-in-their-head_3069384.jpg) > [A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/a-memoir-is-not-an-autobiography-it-s-a-true-story-told-as-a-novel/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Autobiography](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/autobiography/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6e/homer-hickam-10698_books_a-memoir-is-not-an-autobiography-it-s-a_963093.jpg) > [For a country like ours that needs to stay ahead of the world or go under, we must do great, ambitious things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/for-a-country-like-ours-that-needs-to-stay-ahead-of-the-world-or-go/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/country/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2aa/homer-hickam-10698_country_for-a-country-like-ours-that-needs-to-st_3232955.jpg) > ['Rocket Boys,' for one reason or the other, just happened to strike a chord across country and across world, maybe because it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/rocket-boys-for-one-reason-or-the-other-just-happened-to-strike-a/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Come](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/come/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba9/homer-hickam-10698_come_rocket-boys-for-one-reason-or-the-other_1979119.jpg) > [All my life, everything important that had ever happened had always happened somewhere else. But Sputnik was right there in front of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/all-my-life-everything-important-that-had-ever-happened-had-always/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Everything](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/everything/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a71/homer-hickam-10698_everything_all-my-life-everything-important-that-ha_3147477.jpg) > [The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/the-key-to-not-getting-rejected-if-you-re-writing-for-a-magazine-is/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Ifs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/homer-hickam-10698_ifs_the-key-to-not-getting-rejected-if-you-r_503519.jpg) > [If politicians want to save money, that's fine. They can look for all the wasteful spending they want, but not where the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/if-politicians-want-to-save-money-that-s-fine-they-can-look-for-all/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Look](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/look/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/764/homer-hickam-10698_look_if-politicians-want-to-save-money-that-s_311738.jpg) > [I want to make the conquest of the moon the United States' goal for the 21st century and, through that goal, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/i-want-to-make-the-conquest-of-the-moon-the-united-states-goal-for/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/country/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61f/homer-hickam-10698_country_i-want-to-make-the-conquest-of-the-moon_1298603.jpg) > [A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/a-man-can-t-hit-a-woman-and-stay-a-man-he-becomes-a-loathsome-thing/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Darkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/darkness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe7/homer-hickam-10698_darkness_a-man-can-t-hit-a-woman-and-stay-a-man-h_668930.jpg) > [As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/as-i-wrote-more-i-became-more-critical-of-myself-and-i-think-that-you/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Believe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73f/homer-hickam-10698_believe_as-i-wrote-more-i-became-more-critical-o_206471.jpg) > [Rather than being an impediment, NASA can and should be the driver of commerce, the provider of the technology necessary to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/rather-than-being-an-impediment-nasa-can-and-should-be-the-driver-of/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/homer-hickam-10698_business_rather-than-being-an-impediment-nasa-can_2766448.jpg) > [“Death happened often enough that a certain melancholy existed between the young men and women of the little West Virginia town when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/death-happened-often-enough-that-a-certain-melancholy-existed-between/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f0/homer-hickam-10698_death_death-happened-often-enough-that-a-certa_2671212.jpg) > [After marketing surveys by Universal Studios indicated that 'Rocket Boys' as a movie title would not attract the female over-age-thirty demographic, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/after-marketing-surveys-by-universal-studios-indicated-that-rocket/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Film](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/film/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4a/homer-hickam-10698_film_after-marketing-surveys-by-universal-stu_111349.jpg) > [Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/until-i-began-to-build-and-launch-rockets-i-didn-t-know-my-hometown/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Brother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brother/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6a/homer-hickam-10698_brother_until-i-began-to-build-and-launch-rocket_1668385.jpg) > [I ate supper after Dad saw the evening shift down the shaft, and I went to sleep to the ringing of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/i-ate-supper-after-dad-saw-the-evening-shift-down-the-shaft-and-i/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Computers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/750/homer-hickam-10698_computers_i-ate-supper-after-dad-saw-the-evening-s_1029640.jpg) > [I've seen the government up close and personal, and for the most part, it's inefficient and hidebound, and it stifles creativity in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/i-ve-seen-the-government-up-close-and-personal-and-for-the-most-part/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Close](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/close/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/127/homer-hickam-10698_close_i-ve-seen-the-government-up-close-and-pe_3032242.jpg) > [Personally, I've got bigger hopes for NASA. I will stipulate it should keep putting telescopes in space so we can figure out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/personally-i-ve-got-bigger-hopes-for-nasa-i-will-stipulate-it-should/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Building](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/building/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/164/homer-hickam-10698_building_personally-i-ve-got-bigger-hopes-for-nas_1239928.jpg) > [When the moon was first visited in 1969, the astronauts brought back a treasure trove of unique minerals. Contained within specimens was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/when-the-moon-was-first-visited-in-1969-the-astronauts-brought-back-a/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Back](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/back/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ed/homer-hickam-10698_back_when-the-moon-was-first-visited-in-1969_479526.jpg) > [My father use to say if coal died, the country died. He was right. Our economy rests on the back of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/my-father-use-to-say-if-coal-died-the-country-died-he-was-right-our/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Climate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/climate/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/homer-hickam-10698_climate_my-father-use-to-say-if-coal-died-the-co_663240.jpg) > [I have always found the best way to live is to be optimistic and energetic and willing to work hard for my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/i-have-always-found-the-best-way-to-live-is-to-be-optimistic-and/) [Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/) [Best](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/best/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/608/homer-hickam-10698_best_i-have-always-found-the-best-way-to-live_1013069.jpg) ## Homer Hickam by topic [Space (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/space/homer-hickam/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/#itemlist", "name": "Homer Hickam Quotes", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What kind of country just recycles its old money, reminisces about what used to be, and doesn't know how to weld, to machine, to cast or to bolt things together? 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