Quotes by John Glenn

“Fear connotes something that interferes with what youre doing.”

“Love is a combination of friendship, passion, and respect.”

“To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.”

“I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.”

“The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.”

“I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.”

“An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.”

“The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.”

“Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.”

“The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.”

“Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.”

“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”

“If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.”

“Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.”

“I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.”

“Fear connotes something that interferes with what you’re doing.”

“To me, there is no greater calling … If I can inspire young people to dedicate themselves to the good of mankind, I've accomplished something.”

“I don't think many people remember what life was like in those days … This was the era when the Russians were claiming superiority, and they could make a pretty good case — they put up Sputnik in '...”

“I pray every day and I think everybody should. I don't think you can be up here and look out the window as I did the first day and look out at the Earth from this vantage point. We're not so high c...”

“Could this have just happened? . . . I can’t believe that ... Some Power put all this into orbit and keeps it there.”