67 Quotes by Jack Campbell

If the people of Old Earth, our ancestors and their descendants today who remain, could keep building, could keep trying, how can we do less? We are their children, and while we bought to the stars with us all the faults and the problems and the flaws of the past, we also bought the good things, the determination, and the willingness to help others, and the imagination to build things greater then every shortcoming humanity has ever known.

Oh, by the way, you left out one step in the plan.""What step was that?""The one where we pray this works, Admiral.

The road my elders dictate is a narrow one, and I no longer believe it to be the road to wisdom. I choose my ow road. I choose to do the right thing, as you call it. I would not choose another companion for that road, and should you choose to walk that road with me, it would be..," his voice faltered, unable to put words to Alain's feelings, but he met her eyes, trying to let his feelings show. Perhaps he succeeded this time, because once again Mari blushed and bent her head.

Of course, sir. There won’t be any screwups.Hell, Colonel, there are always screwups in any operation. Let’s just keep them within reason.

... people didn't fight for grand causes or great purposes, but for the closest and most personal of reasons. They might say the fought for high ideals, but in practice they fought for the comrades beside them and their loved ones at home.

Mari took one more look at the Mechanic boiler, bit her lip, then looked at him. "I'm going to say this because in another minute we may be dead, and I don't want to die not having told you. I love you.

hungry for breathlike a kite falling stray,the wire grows slackthe child within pulls at the empty air.

From the stars we came, and to the stars we return.

There is no one that can catch that ball. That was at least a double for sure.