Frank Borman Quotes

#1. There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

Frank Borman

#2. It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

Frank Borman

#3. I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape ... It makes us realize that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away it really is a small planet.

Frank Borman

#4. And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.

Frank Borman

#5. The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.

Frank Borman

#6. Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

Frank Borman

#7. When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank Borman

#8. When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth,all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can't we live together like decent people?

Frank Borman

#9. Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

Frank Borman

#10. A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

Frank Borman

#11. We have to earn our Wings every day.

Frank Borman

#12. The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me
a small disk, 240,000 miles away ... Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

Frank Borman

#13. [The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

Frank Borman