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Top 30 Homer Hickam Quotes (2025 Update)

Homer Hickam Quote: “I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn’t hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”

1. “I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn’t hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “A rocket won’t fly unless somebody lights the fuse!”

2. “A rocket won’t fly unless somebody lights the fuse!”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it’s best to be suspicious of it. It’s probably not worth much.”

3. “Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it’s best to be suspicious of it. It’s probably not worth much.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “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 the well-educated citizen.”

4. “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 the well-educated citizen.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn’t going to stop.”

5. “There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn’t going to stop.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn’t quite work that way.”

6. “A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn’t quite work that way.”

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Homer Hickam Quote: “A man can’t hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.”

7. “A man can’t hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.”

8. “It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “Any time a man hits a woman, it’s no longer between him and her.”

9. “Any time a man hits a woman, it’s no longer between him and her.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God’s greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?”

10. “I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God’s greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don’t ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.”

11. “As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don’t ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You’re reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.”

12. “Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You’re reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “The key to not getting rejected if you’re writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission.”

13. “The key to not getting rejected if you’re writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.”

14. “Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.”

15. “I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “We had to start somewhere, either succeed or fail, and then build what we knew as we went along.”

16. “We had to start somewhere, either succeed or fail, and then build what we knew as we went along.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “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 these things.” “You’re.”

17. “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 these things.” “You’re.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “Anybody raised here belongs here. You can’t belong anywhere else.”

18. “Anybody raised here belongs here. You can’t belong anywhere else.”

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

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

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Homer Hickam Quote: “There’s a plan. If you’re willing to fight it hard enough, you can make it detour for a while, but you’re still going to end up wherever God wants you to be. G.”

20. “There’s a plan. If you’re willing to fight it hard enough, you can make it detour for a while, but you’re still going to end up wherever God wants you to be. G.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “Sometimes now, I wake at night, thinking I have heard the sound of my father’s footsteps on the stairs or the shuffling boots and low murmur of the hoot-owl shift going to work. In that half-world between sleep and wakefulness, I can almost hear the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of the arc welder at the little machine shop by the tipple. But it is only a trick of my imagination; nearly everything that I knew in Coalwood is gone.”

21. “Sometimes now, I wake at night, thinking I have heard the sound of my father’s footsteps on the stairs or the shuffling boots and low murmur of the hoot-owl shift going to work. In that half-world between sleep and wakefulness, I can almost hear the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of the arc welder at the little machine shop by the tipple. But it is only a trick of my imagination; nearly everything that I knew in Coalwood is gone.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “Even now, Coalwood endures, and no one, nor careless industry or overzealous government, can ever completely destroy it – not while we who once lived there may recall our life among its places, or especially remember rockets that once leapt into the air propelled not by physics but by the vibrant love of an honorable people, and the instruction of a dear teacher, and the dreams of boys.”

22. “Even now, Coalwood endures, and no one, nor careless industry or overzealous government, can ever completely destroy it – not while we who once lived there may recall our life among its places, or especially remember rockets that once leapt into the air propelled not by physics but by the vibrant love of an honorable people, and the instruction of a dear teacher, and the dreams of boys.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “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, that women had not only to bear the children and raise them, but also put up with men who only saw the world through a man’s eyes.”

23. “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, that women had not only to bear the children and raise them, but also put up with men who only saw the world through a man’s eyes.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “Maybe that’s what life is,” Elsie said. “Mysteries atop mysteries. We think we know everything but we don’t know anything, not really.”

24. “Maybe that’s what life is,” Elsie said. “Mysteries atop mysteries. We think we know everything but we don’t know anything, not really.”

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Homer Hickam Quote: “Nothing on this planet could slink like a fox, Mom said, except maybe a politician in a beer joint.”

25. “Nothing on this planet could slink like a fox, Mom said, except maybe a politician in a beer joint.”

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

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

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Homer Hickam Quote: “It didn’t matter if three hundred million years passed, our part in the timeline would be there, affecting everything that was to come.”

27. “It didn’t matter if three hundred million years passed, our part in the timeline would be there, affecting everything that was to come.”

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Homer Hickam Quote: “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 you travel on this journey is for this thing you don’t know anything about.” Homer.”

28. “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 you travel on this journey is for this thing you don’t know anything about.” Homer.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “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 and your car and the fact that you have an alligator with a rooster on his back, I would guess you might be at least interesting. Name’s Ernest. Some people call me Hem.” After a brief pause he added, “As in Hemingway.” Homer.”

29. “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 and your car and the fact that you have an alligator with a rooster on his back, I would guess you might be at least interesting. Name’s Ernest. Some people call me Hem.” After a brief pause he added, “As in Hemingway.” Homer.”

— Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Quote: “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.”

30. “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

Homer Hickam Quote: “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.”

31. “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

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