Quotes About Space

I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. [Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]

There was a small screened-off space in one corner. Will poked his nose into it and saw a bucket. "What's this for?" he asked. Horace smiled. "It's a privy," he said. "In case I need a nervous wee.

Crea spazi vuoti. Nel calcio come nella vita, nella pittura, nella musica, i vuoti e i silenzi sono importanti come i pieni. (Helenio Herrera)

But who can quantify the algebra of space, or weigh those worlds that swim each in its place? Who can outdo the dark? And what computer knows how beauty comes to birth - shell star and rose? -Technicians by Jean Kenward

Song in Space When man first flew beyond the sky He looked back into the world's blue eye. Man said: What makes your eye so blue? Earth said: The tears in the ocean do. Why are the seas so full of tears? Because I've wept so many thousand years. Why do you weep as you dance through space? Because I'm the Mother of the Human Race. Adrian Mitchell

The Doomed Spaceman ... Weightless, helpless, I'm locked on a track I can't reverse; For once glimpse of home, I would give back the universe. Constellation by constellation, I journey through. My destination Nowhere but death. Ted Walker

Rockets and Quasars Rockets and quasars Planets and stars. I'm fed up with Earth So I'll see you on Mars. John Rice

Retired ... And he could hardly believe it that in his helmet and his bulky space suit he'd stirred that far dust. Iain Crichton Smith

The Eagle Has Landed The airlock swings open - Behold! A new world: obsidian black sky lit by the sun's fierce glare. Inch Down the ladder - The first man on the moon!* Look! The first footprint. Listen! The first word splitting the still dead silence. Dead dust dead rock dead black sky A dead dead world. Zombie in a moontrance I* trip stumble fall rise before the slow dust settles. Adrian Rumble

Man and Height 7.7 million pounds of thrust pushing Apollo 16 up into the speechless oceans of space. Its exhaust plume disappeared about 4 to 5 miles up, and turning from the television I saw my baby son achieving a record 5 building bricks high. John Rice

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

Earth as our home in space, a single blue-white oasis of life surrounded by a black desert.

Nuestro medio ambiente terrestre es, en gran parte, producto del Universo en el que vivimos.

After a moment, the void gathered itself into a low-ceilinged, dim space with sconces in the walls, a stairwell to the left, and closet doors broken from their hinges.

Time is the empty space that allows knowledge—let alone wisdom—to grow.

elsewise adj. struck by the poignant strangeness of other people's homes, which smell and feel so different than your own-seeing the details of their private living space, noticing their little daily rituals, the way they've arranged their things, the framed photos of people you'll never know.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

All the gold in the world would fit in a cube roughly twenty meters on each side.

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle a thing that flies.

Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: ten years and $100 billion.

Perhaps all severe disabilities lead to a decrease in space and an increase in time.

Geometry is 'number in space', music is 'number in time'.