Theodore Hesburgh Quotes

The Greatest Fallout Of The Space Program, ... Was Not The Close-up View Of The Moon, But A Look At Spaceship Earth From Afar. For The First Time In The History Of Humanity, We Were Able To See Our Planet For What It Really Is.

Once He Created The Big Bang... He Could Have Envisioned It Going In Billions Of Directions As It Evolved, Including Billions Of Life-forms And Billions Of Kinds Of Intelligent Beings. As A Theologian, I Would Say That The Proposed Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (seti) Is Also A Search Of Knowing And Understanding God Through His Works - Especially Those Works That Most Reflect Him. Finding Others Than Ourselves Would Mean Knowing Him Better.

You Can't Blow An Uncertain Trumpet.

It Didn't Matter That There Were Actually Two Lakes There, ... It Didn't Matter That He Had Only $300 In His Pocket. He Had The Gall, Or The Zeal, To Call It Not A School, Or A College, But A University.

I'll Have Another Beer. I'm Not Driving.

Voting Is A Civic Sacrament.

Bill Walton, Uh Volleyball Coach, After His Player Kept Looking At Him On The Bench Every Time The Ball Hit The Floor...next Time You Look At Me I'll Put You On The Bench Where You Can See Me Better. My Basic Principle Is That You Don't Make Decisions Because They Are Easy; You Don't Make Them Because They Are Cheap; You Don't Make Them Because They Are Popular. You Make Them Because They Are Right.

Anyone Who Refuses To Speak Out Off Campus Does Not Deserve To Be Listened To On Campus.

All Of Us Are Experts At Practicing Virtue At A Distance.

The Melting Pot Failed To Function In One Crucial Area. Religions And Nationalities, However Different, Generally Learned To Live Together, Even To Grow Together, In America. But Color Was Something Else. Reds Were Murdered Like Wild Animals. Yellows Were Characterized As A Peril And Incarcerated En Masse During World War Ii For No Really Good Reason By Our Most Liberal President. Browns Have Been Abused As The New Slave Labor On Farms. The Blacks, Who Did Not Come Here Willingly, Are Now, More Than A Century After Emancipation By Lincoln, Still Suffering A Host Of Slave Like Inequalities.

There Is No Conflict Between Science And Theology, Except Where There Is Bad Science Or Bad Theology.

A Decade After An Average Athlete Graduates, Everyone Will Have Forgotten When And Where He Played. But Every Time He Speaks, Everyone Will Know Whether He Was Educated.