Outer Space Quotes

• I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Moving, Future, Space

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• After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.125, Arcade Publishing

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• My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Son, Race, Wife

  Song: Crystal Ball

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• We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Humorous, Books And Movies

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• Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

  Eric Hoffer

  God, Stars, Airplane

  www.nytimes.com. July 21, 1969.

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• It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

  Alan Shepard

  Space, Government, Safety

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• Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Waiting, Planets, Ufo

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.125, Open Road Media

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• No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Space, Race, Quests

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.945, Best Books on

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• You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

  Barry McGuire

  Space, Four, May

  Song: Eve Of Destruction

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• Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.

  Michio Kaku

  Intelligent, Moon, Space

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• I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else?

  Gene Cernan

  Believe, Space, Arrogant

  Live Chat, www.cnn.com. January 21, 1999.

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• The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

  David Suzuki

  Life, Home, Intelligent

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• Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

  William S. Burroughs

  Travel, Math, Science

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.85, Arcade Publishing

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• Language is a virus from outer space.

  William S. Burroughs

  Space, Viruses, Language

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

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• There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

  Wernher von Braun

  Business, Science, Space

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, May 1961

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• A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

  William Shatner

  Space, Accomplishment, Joy

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• No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

  Henry Miller

  War, Men, Space

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Moon, Use

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.487, Best Books on

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• The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

  Larry Niven

  Space, Insightful, Dinosaurs

  "A Conversation With Arthur C. Clarke; An Author's Space Odyssey and His Stay at the Chelsea". www.nytimes.com. Ooctober 26, 1999.

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• Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

  Arthur Koestler

  Stars, Faces, Empty

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

  John F. Kennedy

  Moon, Texas, Years

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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• At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo - slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.

  Bernard Cooper

  Space, Black, One Day

  Bernard Cooper (1996). “Truth serum: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.

  Jon Krakauer

  Moon, Impact, Collective Unconscious

  "Krakauer in Antarctica", www.pbs.org. February 11, 2003.

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• The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent that arms race from spreading to new nations, to new nuclear powers and to the reaches of outer space.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Space, Long

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.26, Best Books on

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• Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.

  Stevie Wonder

  Car, Needs, Saturn

  Song: Saturn, Album: Songs in the Key of Life, 1976

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