Apollo Quotes

• Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

  Jose Marti

  Beautiful, Men, Greek

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Long Ago, Tree, Shepherds

  Henry Van Dyke (1927). “Chosen poems”

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• The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Mercury, Harsh

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [938]

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• The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.

  Neil Armstrong

  Opportunity, Forever, Achievement

  Neil Armstrong's remarks at the Apollo 11 30th Anniversary Press Conference at Kennedy Space Center, history.nasa.gov. July 16, 1999.

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• It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Care, Opinion

  The New York Times, July 21, 1969.

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• Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. Nevertheless, the flight will involve risks of great magnitude and probably risks that have not been foreseen.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Risk, Information, Return

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• How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Philosophy

  John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.67

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• Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn.
  [Lat., Neque semper arcum
  Tendit Apollo.]

  Horace

  Doe, Bows

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• We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Space, Exploration

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Men, Views, Should Have

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Book III, Preface, Sec. 1, c. 15 BC.

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• I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

  Gene Kranz

  Care, Can Do, Relatable

  "Fictional character: Gene Kranz". "Apollo 13", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sister, God, Women

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivational, Positive, Moon

  In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20

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• in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Wings, Trying, Arms

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1951). “Speak, Memory: A Memoir”

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• I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

  Natalie Portman

  Summer, Space, Dying

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• So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.

  Paul Newman

  Use, Sometimes, Hard

  "Inside the List" by Jennifer Schuessler, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 2009.

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• Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

  David R. Brower

  Ocean, Moon, May

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• At this point in my career, Apollo 13 is a million light years away.

  Kathleen Quinlan

  Light, Years, Careers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

  Wally Schirra

  Moon, Pigs, Goal

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• Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Earth, Sacred, Firsts

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2946, Delphi Classics

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• I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

  Linda M. Godwin

  Moon, Space, Mercury

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• It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

  Neil Armstrong

  Eerie, Strange, Difficult

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Heart, Stories

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1097, Oxford University Press

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• Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink.

  John Keats

  Flower, Knowledge, Eye

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave
  Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot;
  Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit,
  Where long ago a giant battle was;
  And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass
  In every place where infant Orpheus slept.
  Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept
  Into a sort of oneness, and our state
  Is like a floating spirit's. But there are
  Richer entanglements, enthralments far
  More self-destroying, leading, by degrees,
  To the chief intensity: the crown of these
  Is made of love and friendship, and sits high
  Upon the forehead of humanity.

  John Keats

  Life, Feet, Self

  John Keats, “Endymion: Book I”

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