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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and… — James Russell Lowell
The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. — Jim Lovell
When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told… — Yuri Gagarin
If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No,… — Alan Shepard
When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried — Alan Shepard
I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then… — Pete Conrad
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But… — Valentina Tereshkova
After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As… — Anatoly Karpov
First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control — Anatoly Karpov
When we are children, we have a tranquil acceptance of mystery which is driven out of us later on, by curiosity and education and experience.… — Susan Cooper
But in some ways I think it's braver to do it like this. And, to an extent, you know what? The worst that can happen… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered. — Louisa May Alcott
I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light.… — Jean Craighead George
I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising.… — Jean Craighead George
I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog… — George R. R. Martin
I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate — Sandra Cisneros
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. — N. Scott Momaday
Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have… — Gia Carangi
Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything.… — Mike Tyson
George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always… — George Foreman
Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can… — Malcolm X
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it… — Malcolm X
I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the… — Andrew Breitbart
Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist.… — Napoleon Hill

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