Frank Borman Quotes

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

Frank Borman

#2. Does that mean", I said in some bewilderment, "that we must eat again of the tree of knowledge in order to return to the state of innocence?"
"Of course", he said, "but that's the final chapter in the history of the world.

Heinrich Von Kleist

#3. People were always ready to yield their
wills, to worship the hero, because they were not given a chance
for developing initiative, stability, and independence, said the great
nineteenth-century Russian sociologist Nikolai Mikhailovsky

Ernest Becker

#4. [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

#5. 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

#6. Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

Luc De Clapiers

#7. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who's next? Will it be someone I can't stand?

Matt Roper

#8. As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

Paulo Coelho

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

Frank Borman

#11. You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

Josephine Humphreys

#12. Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.

Chris Kuzneski

#13. One person can make a difference," said Seeley, "and bit by bit, little by little moral decency can and will prevail.

Cathrina Constantine

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

Frank Borman

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

Frank Borman

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

Charles Darwin

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

Frank Borman

#20. Reading books is good,
Rereading good books is better.

Lawrence Clark Powell

#21. Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

Thomas Frank

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

Frank Borman

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.

Ted Cruz