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You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is...

Homer Hickam

You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is...

Tags: citizenship, dedication and attitude, education, education knowledge, education of a wandering man, education study studying, inspirational, knowledge, knowledge education, knowledge habit inspirational

You let Kerns hit the ball. Question is why? I wanted to let him keep his dignity. Thompson

Homer Hickam

You let Kerns hit the ball. Question is why? I wanted to let him keep his dignity. Thompson

About Author
Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His 1998 memoir Rocket Boys (also published as October Sky) was a New York Times Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky. Hickam's body of written work also includes several additional best-selling memoirs and novels, including the "Josh Thurlow" historical fiction novels, his 2015 best-selling Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, his Wife, and her Alligator and in 2021 the sequel to Rocket Boys titled Don't Blow Yourself Up: The Further Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky. His books have been translated into many languages.

Death happened often enough that a certain melancholy existed between the young men and women of the little West Virginia town when they made their daily farewells

Homer Hickam

Death happened often enough that a certain melancholy existed between the young men and women of the little West Virginia town when they made their daily farewells

Tags: mining, west virginia

The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.

Homer Hickam

The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.

Tags: determination, perseverance

Blue suede shoes

Homer Hickam

Blue suede shoes

Let me find you. If you don’t, I will still look. If you won’t, I will still look. If you can’t, I will still look. It is the looking that finds the love, Not the finding. Homer

Homer Hickam

Let me find you. If you don’t, I will still look. If you won’t, I will still look. If you can’t, I will still look. It is the looking that finds the love, Not the finding. Homer

It was during a strike when I first saw hate on a man’s face. Hate is an awful thing. It gets inside you and makes you do things you swear you’d never do.

Homer Hickam

It was during a strike when I first saw hate on a man’s face. Hate is an awful thing. It gets inside you and makes you do things you swear you’d never do.

I had my fun with you yesterday, Homer, with Bruiser and all, but I hope you know I care about you. You’re a good man, maybe too good by a sight, so keep in mind there’s a Depression out where you’re...

Homer Hickam

I had my fun with you yesterday, Homer, with Bruiser and all, but I hope you know I care about you. You’re a good man, maybe too good by a sight, so keep in mind there’s a Depression out where you’re...

My agent in Miami told me you were coming. I like to keep up with who’s coming to my island, especially government and railroad men. Typically, I don’t like either one but considering your girl here a...

Homer Hickam

My agent in Miami told me you were coming. I like to keep up with who’s coming to my island, especially government and railroad men. Typically, I don’t like either one but considering your girl here a...

Dilly Trammel shot me as I was climbing out. Jim winced, as if the memory made him get shot all over again. Trudy and me heard him at the front door—an hour before he should’ve been home, by the way—b...

Homer Hickam

Dilly Trammel shot me as I was climbing out. Jim winced, as if the memory made him get shot all over again. Trudy and me heard him at the front door—an hour before he should’ve been home, by the way—b...

As Elsie showered, she realized she had learned something. She was attracted to the kind of man Denver was. He drove fast and was dangerous and handsome but, she reflected, he was also, in his own way...

Homer Hickam

As Elsie showered, she realized she had learned something. She was attracted to the kind of man Denver was. He drove fast and was dangerous and handsome but, she reflected, he was also, in his own way...

Death ain’t nothin’, the tied-up man retorted. It’s how you die. Watch me, boys, and learn somethin’!

Homer Hickam

Death ain’t nothin’, the tied-up man retorted. It’s how you die. Watch me, boys, and learn somethin’!

Carter opened the leather cover of the document and spread out its papers. He pretended to study them for a moment although he could quote them by rote. A good lawyer is also a good actor and a dramat...

Homer Hickam

Carter opened the leather cover of the document and spread out its papers. He pretended to study them for a moment although he could quote them by rote. A good lawyer is also a good actor and a dramat...

The morning sun was a grinning, red-toothed warrior, come to slay the night. Bloody and quick, it tore through the night-riding clouds sitting on the purplish, rolling sea and flung a silver-white spe...

Homer Hickam

The morning sun was a grinning, red-toothed warrior, come to slay the night. Bloody and quick, it tore through the night-riding clouds sitting on the purplish, rolling sea and flung a silver-white spe...

But that’s what kismet is. It makes us careen off in odd directions from which we learn not only what life is about but what it is for. This journey may be nothing less than your chance to discover th...

Homer Hickam

But that’s what kismet is. It makes us careen off in odd directions from which we learn not only what life is about but what it is for. This journey may be nothing less than your chance to discover th...

Most things take more time than we believe they will. But, now, what about love? Will love take more time than you think? I don’t know anything about love. That is true, she agreed. Yet, every mile yo...

Homer Hickam

Most things take more time than we believe they will. But, now, what about love? Will love take more time than you think? I don’t know anything about love. That is true, she agreed. Yet, every mile yo...

At that moment, it occurred to Elsie that it was men who caused most of the problems in the world and that included the Captain, Homer, Malcolm, Karl Marx, and even Buddy Ebsen. It made her angry, tha...

Homer Hickam

At that moment, it occurred to Elsie that it was men who caused most of the problems in the world and that included the Captain, Homer, Malcolm, Karl Marx, and even Buddy Ebsen. It made her angry, tha...

All I’ve done is give you a book, she said. You have to have the courage to learn what’s inside it.

Homer Hickam

All I’ve done is give you a book, she said. You have to have the courage to learn what’s inside it.

Agitators were dispatched to Coalwood in droves and, very soon, wildcat strikes were hitting the mine every

Homer Hickam

Agitators were dispatched to Coalwood in droves and, very soon, wildcat strikes were hitting the mine every

You clearly are a remarkable man, she said, to travel with such creatures. The rooster is much more than he seems, as is the alligator. But, of course, you know that. Homer

Homer Hickam

You clearly are a remarkable man, she said, to travel with such creatures. The rooster is much more than he seems, as is the alligator. But, of course, you know that. Homer