Orbit Quotes
160 quotes by 135 authors
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Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience our sexuality on…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon…
— John F. Kennedy
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We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.
— Richard Branson
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The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000 people by 2024.…
— Burt Rutan
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Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep…
— Barack Obama
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We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be…
— Richard Branson
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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish…
— Buzz Aldrin
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At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real…
— Todd Skinner
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We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're…
— Linda M. Godwin
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For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.
— Philip Roth
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I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to…
— Bill Nye
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Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had to have been…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
— Giordano Bruno
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We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit…
— Kingsley Amis
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For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the…
— Mohsin Hamid
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The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
— Max Bill
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It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than…
— Robert L. Devaney
Who Wrote These Orbit Quotes
135 authors contributed a total of 160 Orbit Quotes, led by these top contributors: