Yuri Gagarin Quotes

• Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Earth, Afar, Realizing

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• When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

  Yuri Gagarin

  Beautiful, Space, Earth

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• Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Stars, Future, Men

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• I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Airplane, Dark, Islands

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• Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it

  Yuri Gagarin

  People, World, Earth

  "Celebrate Space Travel's Past and Future", www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2002.

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• The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing

  Yuri Gagarin

  War, Blue, Earth

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• I could have gone on flying through space forever.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Space, Forever, Flying

  "Dawn of the Space Age". Book by Robin Kerrod, 2004.

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• To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

  Yuri Gagarin

  Dream, Space Flight, Cosmos

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• I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Beautiful, Earth, Astronaut

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• What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth.... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots.... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Dark, Clouds, Light

  "Earth's Aura". Book by Louise B. Young, 1977.

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• 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 them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!

  Yuri Gagarin

  Space, Moscow, Saws

  "The Evolution Of The Spacesuit" by Adam Mann, www.wired.com. October 24, 2011.

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• The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Grief, Joy, Cabins

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• Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Dark, Artist, Light

  "Warrior of Light : The Life of Nicholas Roerich : Artist, Himalayan explorer and visionary". Book by Colleen Messina, 2002.

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• If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!

  Yuri Gagarin

  People, Welcome, Can Do

  "Mankind's first giant leap". www.economist.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Moon, Cheerful, Machines

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• I feel fine. How about you?

  Yuri Gagarin

  Space, Fine, Feels

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