"I was a child of World War Two……" — Eugene Cernan
"I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough."
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12 Quotes by Eugene Cernan
Eugene Cernan has 12 quotes on this site.
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NASA has been scattered to the four winds.
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Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic…
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I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to…
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Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.
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Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when…
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To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she…
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We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is…
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I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I…
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After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw…
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Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud…
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As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with…
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More Aircraft Quotes
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Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
— Dean Acheson
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We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to…
— Douglas Bader
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I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or…
— Gordon Bethune
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If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
— Joe Biden
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In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to…
— John O. Brennan
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The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other…
— John O. Brennan
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The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages…
— James Buchan
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I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could…
— George H. W. Bush
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Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will…
— Paul Cellucci
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But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval…
— Paul Cellucci
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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point…
— Winston Churchill
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there…
— Ian Anderson
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