Apollo Quotes - Page 4

• During the period of the Saturn-Apollo missions we were pilgrims in space, ranging from home in search of knowledge. Now we will become shepherds tending our technological flocks, but like the shepherds of old, we will keep our eyes fixed on the heavens.

  Jimmy Carter

  Home, Eye, Space

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo [space program] in 1961.

  Neil Armstrong

  Space, Program, Difficult

  "Neil Armstrong opens up for biography", www.today.com. December 5, 2005.

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• Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly - That was big time for blacks.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Mistake, Athlete

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• The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

  Charles Lamb

  Silence, Dumb, Muse

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1849). “The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By T. N. Talfourd”, p.264

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• I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Impossible Things, Needs, World

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• The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.

  Pete Conrad

  Interesting, Firsts, Normal

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• And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.

  Frank Borman

  Good Night, Good Luck, Merry Christmas

  Frank Borman, Robert J. Serling (1988). “Countdown: an autobiography”, Silver Arrow

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• They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

  Plato

  Knowledge, Science, Dedication

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• Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.

  Martin Heinrich

  Moon, Technology, America

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• Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.

  Jerome Bruner

  Writing, Culture, Citizens

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Sweet, Taken, Smell

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• When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.

  Jim Lovell

  Moon, Outlook On Life, Imagination

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• Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane.

  Wally Schirra

  Airplane, Trying, Way

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• I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault.

  Reed Hastings

  Ideas, Video, Faults

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• You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is it being used for? It’s being used to throw angry birds at pigs; it’s being used to send pictures of your cat to people halfway around the world; it’s being used to check in as the virtual mayor of a virtual nowhere while you’re riding a subway from the nineteenth century.

  Peter Thiel

  Cat, Iphone, Pigs

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• Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead
  Is great Apollo; and the happier he

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dust, Long, Eternity

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1950). “Second April: and, The buck in the snow [and other poems]”

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• It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Space, Different

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• I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Believe, Moon, Space

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• Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. . . . Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moon, Men, Space

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• We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Moon, Space, Earth

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.454, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Singing, Firsts, Chairs

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• The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

  John Milton

  Running, Lying, Cells

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.368

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• The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Medicine

  Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.371

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• THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Stars, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.112, Graphic Arts Books

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• No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or more intimate associates, which may be inferred both from his birth, and his versatile wisdom.

  Iamblichus

  Soul, May, Birth

  "Life of Pythagoras". Book by Iamblichus, Ch. 2: Youth, Education, Travels, translated by Thomas Taylor,

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