"Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was……" — Jim Lovell
"Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy."
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Jim Lovell
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22 Quotes by Jim Lovell
Jim Lovell has 22 quotes on this site.
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The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.
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Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.
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Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
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Houston, we've had a problem here
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The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.
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The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.
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When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed...…
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For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft
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We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just…
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The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.
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Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes…
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You need to be a person who makes things happen.
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More Airplane Quotes
This quote is filed under Airplane Quotes,
one of 502 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
— Robert Benchley
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I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or…
— Gordon Bethune
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
— Barbara Bush
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Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these…
— Nolan Bushnell
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I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.…
— Michael P. Anderson
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Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful.…
— Charles Schumer
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Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its…
— Wernher von Braun
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I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.
— George Cayley
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Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be…
— Octave Chanute
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
— Unknown Author
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
— Otto Lilienthal
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MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever…
— Ernest K. Gann
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