First Human In Space Quotes

#1. Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

Scott Kelly

#2. In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.

Nikolai Leskov

#3. The Obama Administration continues to talk about the 'policies of the past' and insist that a return to those policies will lead to disaster.

Marsha Blackburn

#4. The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

Buzz Aldrin

#5. What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

Louise Leakey

#6. British astronomer royal Richard Woolley, who in 1956 said, "All this talk about space travel is utter bilge, really."10 Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the earth just five years later.

Massimo Pigliucci

#7. I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.

Elaine Sciolino

#8. I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!

Karlie Kloss

#9. I looked and looked but I didn't see God.
[Speaking about, in 1961, becoming the first human to enter space.]

Yuri Gagarin

#10. In meditation ... the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#11. Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.

Buzz Aldrin

#12. We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#13. I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.
[Having identified Uranus (1781), the first planet discovered since antiquity.]

William Herschel

#14. True love that lasts forever ... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

Zooey Deschanel

#15. My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

Jack Welch