Homer
Biography
Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer. His autobiographical novel *October Sky: A Memoir*, was a No. 1 New York Times Best Seller, is studied in many American and international school systems, and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky. Hickam has also written a number of best-selling memoirs and novels including the "Josh Thurlow" historical fiction novels. His books have been translated into several languages. - Wikipedia
Quotes from Homer
"Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
1081
"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."
1082
"…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."
1083
"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
1084
"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."
1085
"There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."
1086
"A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time."
1087
"Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this."
1088
"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."
1089
"For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother."
1090
"Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away."
1091
"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for."
1092
"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"
1093
"Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns."
1094
"Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall."
1095
"Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death."
1096
"No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born."
1097
"No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny."
1098
"Each man delights in the work that suits him best."
1099
"If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer."
1100
"Life is largely a matter of expectation."
1101
"There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth."
1102
"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."
1103
"Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms."
1104