Quote

When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

John F. Kennedy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John F. Kennedy
Age: 46 †
Born: 1917
Born: May 29
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
35Th U.S. President
Journalist
Military Officer
Politician
Statesperson
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Jack Kennedy
President Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
J. F. Kennedy
JFK
John Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Jack Kennedy
JF Kennedy
Three
Chinese
Become
Tables
Algonquins
Wanted
Hero
Lindbergh
Members
Wishes
Type
Member
Growing
Round
Learn
Rounds
Wish
Table

More quotes by John F. Kennedy

Image
The most ideal approach to advance is the way of opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
Image
There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.
John F. Kennedy
Image
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
John F. Kennedy
Image
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy
Image
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Nearly forty years ago, a distinguished Prime Minister of this country ... said, 'They may not be angels but they are at least our friends.'* I must say that I do not think that we probably demonstrated in that forty years that we are angels yet, but I hope we have demonstrated that we are at least friends.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.
John F. Kennedy
Image
There is, in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.
John F. Kennedy
Image
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy
Image
My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy
Image
I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm not convinced of these - they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.
John F. Kennedy