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Homer Hickam

American Author

Born: Feb 19, 1943

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Persevere with a plan to reach your passion, and life will be good. Homer Hickam

Life Good Passion Will Reach Persevere Plan Your

I grew up listening to my dad, a miner who rose through the ranks to be the mine superintendent in Coalwood, W.V. , yelling orders into his black company phone. He wanted to get coal out of the ground and into coal cars and on its way to steel mills. Homer Hickam

Phone Listening Car Black Rose Mine Way Miner Ranks Out Steel Through He His Yelling Up Get Wanted Grew Orders Coal Ground Who Company Dad Mills

My father use to say if coal died, the country died. He was right. Our economy rests on the back of the coal miner. If we did not have the black diamonds of the mountains to burn, we would lose more than half of the nation's energy reserves. Homer Hickam

Father Black Country Half Lose Nation Mountains Energy Back Our Miner Say Would More Rests He Economy Diamonds Than Did Died Burn Coal Use Reserves Right

Rather than being an impediment, NASA can and should be the driver of commerce, the provider of the technology necessary to make some big money in space. The truth is that private enterprise already has a huge presence up there. Homer Hickam

Truth Technology Truth Is Money Space Big Enterprise Some Rather Impediment Driver Make NASA Private Private Enterprise Provider Huge Up Big Money Commerce Than Being Should Presence Necessary

After marketing surveys by Universal Studios indicated that 'Rocket Boys' as a movie title would not attract the female over-age-thirty demographic, the film was retitled and released as 'October Sky.' Homer Hickam

Sky Marketing Released Would Studios Attract Demographic Female Boy October Rocket Surveys Movie After Title Film Universal

My father lost an eye to a snapped cable while trying to rescue trapped miners, though he kept on working for fifteen years afterward. Homer Hickam

Father Lost Trapped Miners Though Eye Cable He Years Snapped Trying Afterwards While Fifteen Working Rescue Kept

When I began to write my books about Coalwood, I was surprised to discover, upon reflection, that it wasn't an ordinary place at all. Homer Hickam

Reflection Books About Write Surprised Discover Began Ordinary Place

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? Not one that's on a path to future greatness, that's for certain. Homer Hickam

Future Together Money Path Old Country Machine Kind About Cast Know How Greatness Just Certain Used Bolt Things

I want to make the conquest of the moon the United States' goal for the 21st century and, through that goal, to make us a great and good and happy country for generations to come. Homer Hickam

Good Great Happy Moon Country States Through Generations Come Make Goal Want Century Us United United States Conquest

Throughout my childhood, when I raised my blanket in the morning, I saw a black, sparkling powder float off it. My socks were always black with coal dirt when I took off my shoes at night. Homer Hickam

Morning Black Shoes Took Saw Dirt Throughout Blanket Powder Always Were Off Childhood Sparkling Coal Float Raised Socks Night

All my life, everything important that had ever happened had always happened somewhere else. But Sputnik was right there in front of my eyes in my backyard... I felt that if I stretched out enough, I could touch it. Homer Hickam

Glenn's 1962 Mercury flight was fraught with dramatics, from his 'Zero G and I feel fine!' exultation upon entering orbit to his reentry with what was feared was a faulty heat shield. After he safely splashed down, the nation erupted with applause and gratitude not seen since Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic. Homer Hickam

Gratitude Seen Nation Down Faulty Entering Solo Fraught Fine Atlantic Charles Feared He Mercury Feel Glenn Since Safely Shield His Heat Orbit After Across Flight Applause Zero

When legislators do something that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, there's always the suspicion that they're in somebody's pocket. Homer Hickam

Somebody Sense Pocket Something Make Always Lot Suspicion Legislators Whole

Rational thought will always trump medieval dogma. Homer Hickam

Will Thought Rational Always Dogma Trump Medieval

I ate supper after Dad saw the evening shift down the shaft, and I went to sleep to the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of an arc welder at the little tipple machine shop during the hoot-owl shift. Homer Hickam

Down Saw Machine Ate Ringing Arc Shaft Steel Supper Dry Hammer Shift Shop After Little Dad Evening Sleep

My dad was a miner, but he was very much an intellectual. He loved to read. Homer Hickam

Miner He Read Intellectual Very Loved Much Dad

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