Top 51 Quotes by John Glenn

Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

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

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.

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

The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.

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.

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

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

Everywhere that Americans spread off the Eastern seaboard, heading west across this country, they put up the schoolhouse first, hired a schoolteacher, and put all the kids in school.

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.