Jim Lovell Quotes

#1. From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go. - Author: Jim Lovell

#2. I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting. - Author: Jim Lovell

#3. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy. - Author: Jim Lovell

#4. I never thought I didn't have a card to play. - Author: Jim Lovell

#5. Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space. - Author: Jim Lovell

#6. Houston, we've had a problem here - Author: Jim Lovell

#7. The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there. - Author: Jim Lovell

#8. There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. - Author: Jim Lovell

#9. We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it. - Author: Jim Lovell

#10. I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession. - Author: Jim Lovell

#11. The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored. - Author: Jim Lovell

#12. I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries. - Author: Jim Lovell

#13. I take the NASA physical every year. - Author: Jim Lovell

#14. The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand. - Author: Jim Lovell

#15. Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. - Author: Jim Lovell

#16. The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. - Author: Jim Lovell

#17. It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something into the-into the space. - Author: Jim Lovell

#18. For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft - Author: Jim Lovell

#19. Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus. - Author: Jim Lovell

#20. When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed ... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination. - Author: Jim Lovell