#la

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#did #discipline #family #helpful #i

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#finish #five #get #glad #grades

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#away #bike #clean #clean up #early

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#aircraft #aviator #becoming #carriers #challenged

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#carrying #excitement #launch #launch pad #me

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#attitude #cues #flew #had #his

They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#away #good #landing #say #they say

I have a lot of friends and fans in Orlando, and I'd love to see them again. ↗

— Bobby Sherman

#fans #friends #i #lot #love

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#available #bar #become #beer #black

In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#brief #coltrane #completely #considered #country