John Glenn Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and each other.

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

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

There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

Zero G and I feel fine.

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Just because I'm 77 doesn't mean I don't have a dream.

The moment of twilight is simply beautiful.

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security.

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

I still love to fly and I'll never get over that.

We had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly with Friendship 7.

I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.

I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical.