Apollo Quotes

• It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Care, Opinion

  The New York Times, July 21, 1969.

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• The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Mercury, Harsh

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [938]

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• Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

  Jose Marti

  Beautiful, Men, Greek

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.

  Neil Armstrong

  Opportunity, Forever, Achievement

  Neil Armstrong's remarks at the Apollo 11 30th Anniversary Press Conference at Kennedy Space Center, history.nasa.gov. July 16, 1999.

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• How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Philosophy

  John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.67

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• Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn.
  [Lat., Neque semper arcum
  Tendit Apollo.]

  Horace

  Doe, Bows

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• I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sister, God, Women

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• Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Men, Views, Should Have

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Book III, Preface, Sec. 1, c. 15 BC.

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• I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

  Gene Kranz

  Care, Can Do, Relatable

  "Fictional character: Gene Kranz". "Apollo 13", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

  Natalie Portman

  Summer, Space, Dying

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivational, Positive, Moon

  In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20

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• Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

  David R. Brower

  Ocean, Moon, May

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• So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.

  Paul Newman

  Use, Sometimes, Hard

  "Inside the List" by Jennifer Schuessler, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 2009.

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• I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

  Linda M. Godwin

  Moon, Space, Mercury

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• As I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come...I'd like to just (say) what I believe history will record. That America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. As we leave the Moon at Taurus- Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. "Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17."

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Destiny, Men

  "EVA-3 Close-out". Apollo 17 Flight Journal, www.hq.nasa.gov. 1995.

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• The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What Apollo has begun we hope will spread out in many directions, not just in space, but underneath the seas, and in the cities to tell us unforgettably what we will and must do. There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Perseverance, Ocean, Science

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• It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  People, Way, Advantage

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• First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Moon, Men

  Special message to joint session of Congress on urgent national needs, 25 May 1961

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• in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Wings, Trying, Arms

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1951). “Speak, Memory: A Memoir”

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• Hey, we missed the whole thing.

  Neil Armstrong

  Hey, Whole

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• Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Falling In Love, Order, People

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• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  Wally Schirra

  Break Up, Wife, Program

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• Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

  Solomon Burke

  Records, Ability

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• From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

  Tom Hanks

  Science, Moon, Men

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• He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one

  Wally Schirra

  Flight, Command

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