Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation.
EDWIN E. ALDRIN, JR. Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North...
BUZZ ALDRIN Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, ...
BUZZ ALDRIN I am Buzz Lightyear!
BUZZ ALDRIN America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill a...
BUZZ ALDRIN I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine r...
BUZZ ALDRIN I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I wa...
BUZZ ALDRIN The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
BUZZ ALDRIN I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from t...
BUZZ ALDRIN You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate f...
BUZZ ALDRIN By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder...
BUZZ ALDRIN Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.
BUZZ ALDRIN As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar cre...
BUZZ ALDRIN Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
BUZZ ALDRIN Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the...
BUZZ ALDRIN Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.
BUZZ ALDRIN Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
BUZZ ALDRIN Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place...
BUZZ ALDRIN I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice break...
BUZZ ALDRIN Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
BUZZ ALDRIN We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new in...
BUZZ ALDRIN When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto...
BUZZ ALDRIN As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard t...
BUZZ ALDRIN Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pi...
BUZZ ALDRIN If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
BUZZ ALDRIN I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'
BUZZ ALDRIN Tang sucks.
BUZZ ALDRIN My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To E...
BUZZ ALDRIN I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone...
BUZZ ALDRIN My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.
BUZZ ALDRIN We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources lo...
BUZZ ALDRIN Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things,...
BUZZ ALDRIN Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!
BUZZ ALDRIN A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.
BUZZ ALDRIN I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new space...
BUZZ ALDRIN The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in ...
BUZZ ALDRIN To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the fir...
BUZZ ALDRIN What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around an...
BUZZ ALDRIN I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air...
BUZZ ALDRIN I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on...
BUZZ ALDRIN Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were mo...
BUZZ ALDRIN Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of spac...
BUZZ ALDRIN Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise ...
BUZZ ALDRIN As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal exp...
BUZZ ALDRIN Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership...
BUZZ ALDRIN A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.
BUZZ ALDRIN Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not...
BUZZ ALDRIN There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a m...
BUZZ ALDRIN The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into scienc...
BUZZ ALDRIN You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.
BUZZ ALDRIN Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going t...
BUZZ ALDRIN The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenaci...
BUZZ ALDRIN Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo p...
BUZZ ALDRIN The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those...
BUZZ ALDRIN taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on t...
BUZZ ALDRIN why can't the average citizen? That's what I've been promoting in the last several years.
BUZZ ALDRIN We've got to go [back to the moon]. But we don't want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mar...
BUZZ ALDRIN Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public intere...
BUZZ ALDRIN Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations.
BUZZ ALDRIN I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I...
BUZZ ALDRIN There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not ju...
BUZZ ALDRIN Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
BUZZ ALDRIN As someone who has experienced the isolating effects of hearing loss first-hand, I felt compelled to...
BUZZ ALDRIN One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation sh...
BUZZ ALDRIN When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be...
BUZZ ALDRIN I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we mig...
BUZZ ALDRIN There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. An...
BUZZ ALDRIN There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probabili...
BUZZ ALDRIN It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
BUZZ ALDRIN I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long ti...
BUZZ ALDRIN Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compet...
BUZZ ALDRIN Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a b...
BUZZ ALDRIN Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. A...
BUZZ ALDRIN The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting...
BUZZ ALDRIN I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that'...
BUZZ ALDRIN Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fa...
BUZZ ALDRIN Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.
BUZZ ALDRIN Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-styl...
BUZZ ALDRIN The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that t...
BUZZ ALDRIN Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
BUZZ ALDRIN The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, t...
BUZZ ALDRIN The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around ...
BUZZ ALDRIN I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really l...
BUZZ ALDRIN I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible thi...
BUZZ ALDRIN The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant ben...
BUZZ ALDRIN It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food e...
BUZZ ALDRIN I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can ...
BUZZ ALDRIN For every winner, there’s a loser. And that person didn’t really need to lose. They just didn’...
BUZZ ALDRIN Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leavi...
BUZZ ALDRIN In a Sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are Surviving each and every Active Time-Point in this Tim...
ALDRIN MATHEW I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit...
BUZZ ALDRIN Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is wha...
BUZZ ALDRIN If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spend...
BUZZ ALDRIN Monumental achievements by humanity should be done by major organizations as much together as possib...
BUZZ ALDRIN I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to t...
BUZZ ALDRIN Certainly, you can't participate in such a momentous program and not have the reminders of it have a...
BUZZ ALDRIN There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of...
BUZZ ALDRIN Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, a...
BUZZ ALDRIN Upon stepping foot on the moon, Buzz remarked to Houston, 'Beautiful, beautiful. Magnificent desolat...
BUZZ ALDRIN I think you have to talk to your congressman to try to get the government to want to work with the p...
BUZZ ALDRIN I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up ...
BUZZ ALDRIN We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do som...
BUZZ ALDRIN Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, ...
BUZZ ALDRIN We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.
BUZZ ALDRIN NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The a...
BUZZ ALDRIN By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innova...
BUZZ ALDRIN I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently co...
BUZZ ALDRIN I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
BUZZ ALDRIN A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstra...
BUZZ ALDRIN When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shou...
BUZZ ALDRIN Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't loo...
BUZZ ALDRIN My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of look...
BUZZ ALDRIN Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. T...
BUZZ ALDRIN There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that ar...
BUZZ ALDRIN We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.
BUZZ ALDRIN Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
BUZZ ALDRIN Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shu...
BUZZ ALDRIN I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.
BUZZ ALDRIN I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.
BUZZ ALDRIN 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
L. E. MODESITT, JR. According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover.
L. E. MODESITT, JR. I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique...
L. E. MODESITT, JR. If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
L. E. MODESITT, JR. I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.
L. E. MODESITT, JR. Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literar...
L. E. MODESITT, JR. My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times alm...
L. E. MODESITT, JR. When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been ...
L. E. MODESITT, JR. I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing ...
L. E. MODESITT, JR. I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probabl...
L. E. MODESITT, JR. Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.
E. R. STETTINIUS, JR. Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I kill when I hunt and do not apologize for that, although I reserve the right to think about its im...
E. DONNALL THOMAS, JR. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged t...
L. E. MODESITT, JR. I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. It is often easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have t...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I don't mind a little praise - as long as it's fulsome.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains withou...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. My definition of a free society is where it's safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will s...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy o...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which americans submit to speeches.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Most exciting ideas are not important. Most important ideas are not exciting. Not every problem has ...
DANIEL E GEER JR. Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Bearing false witness is not just one of the Ten Commandments. The Bible has numerously repeated war...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a ...
WILLIAM E. CONWAY, JR. If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics...
WILLIAM E. CONWAY, JR. Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on studen...
E. D. HIRSCH JR. It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people are rarely the ones who are the smartest or most...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Love is the agreement between the mind and the heart
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. Don't get something that will satisfy you for a moment, Do something that will make you happy for a ...
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. You cannot have quality if you do not have equality.
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. At times, some are able to make up for what they lack in skill or ability by a sincere and genuine d...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Some people are sadly oblivious to the fact that knowing how to say something negative or sarcastic ...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Some never recognize or will even acknowledge their own personal lack of education or intelligence, ...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Success starts with the right mindset, not with the right situation.
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. Like racist white-supremacists and sexist bigots, there are hetero-supremacists that are heterosexis...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Resorting to slander and ridicule as the basis of reasoning for an argument - admits and confesses t...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Ridicule first, then shame and condescension are the weapons and ammunition - in the mental manipula...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people with the least education or variety of life expe...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Knowledge cannot be measured; it can be seen with hardwork
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. Some people are sadly oblivious to the fact that knowing how to say something negative or sarcastic ...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Libertarianism is “cultish,” say the sophisticates. Of course, there’s nothing cultish at all ...
THOMAS E. WOODS JR. The biggest and most dangerous lie of humanity is that the only way one can only survive or progress...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Ignorance and Indifference are choices, yet they are the parents of Slander and Ridicule, and the gr...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Just like white supremacists there are hetero-supremacists. They believe that by virtue of the fact ...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. If you’re waiting for all the misfits, imperfect people, sinners, and hypocrites to stop attending...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. If you’re waiting for all the misfits, imperfect people, sinners, and hypocrites to stop attending...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. In an attempt to conceal their own shortcomings, those with closed minds and lacking the intellectua...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Bullies are those pretending to have self-worth and self-esteem, but only through the humiliation, e...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. The ignorant become stupid - when they no longer perceive or willfully ignore their own lack of know...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. A community without accountability doesn’t stand a chance!
CHARLES E. COX, JR. Make decisions you can live with, not ones you can die from!
CHARLES E. COX, JR. The egocentric person is always enthusiastic about getting behind - or involved - in a cause, an iss...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. It's all just practice for the next time
JAMES E. BROWN JR. We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it ...
E. D. HIRSCH, JR. Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on studen...
E. D. HIRSCH, JR. People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzea...
EDWIN EDWARDS I fear the vermin that shall undermine
Senate and citadel and school and shrine.
EDWIN MARKHAM There is a destiny that makes us brothers:
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into ...
EDWIN MARKHAM We all are blind until we see
That in the human plan
Nothing is worth the making if
I...
EDWIN MARKHAM And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,
Goe...
EDWIN MARKHAM He drew a circle that shut me out--
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the w...
EDWIN MARKHAM The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun- illuminated univers...
EDWIN MARKHAM Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choo...
EDWIN ARNOLD He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had t...
EDWIN MARKHAM