Gagarin 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. Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.

Burt Rutan

#3. 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

#4. This is the band Radical Posture, and my name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five-Year Plan Sputnik Pravda Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

Alexei Sayle

#5. Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

Alexei Sayle

#6. There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

John L. Phillips

#7. Yuri Gagarin had a much more reliable and safe ship than I do. And Soviet ships were death traps.

Andy Weir

#8. Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

Nikita Khrushchev

#9. The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.

Lev Yashin

#10. As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

Viola Davis

#11. I don't see any god up here.

Yuri Gagarin

#12. There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper. A little beef and bingo at the Nugents'.

Adam Rapp

#13. The earth was blue but there was no god.

Yuri Gagarin

#14. These things made me feel like I could stand in one place my whole life and never run out of new things to discover. I liked that so many things were out there, waiting to be known.

Ali Benjamin

#15. Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.

Yuri Gagarin

#16. To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

Yuri Gagarin

#17. When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

Yuri Gagarin

#18. I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black ... the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.

Yuri Gagarin

#19. I don't see any god up here first man in space, while in space.

Yuri Gagarin

#20. I could have gone on flying through space forever.

Yuri Gagarin

#21. The Earth is blue ... how wonderful. It is amazing

Yuri Gagarin

#22. Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.

Irma S. Rombauer

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

Yuri Gagarin

#24. I feel fine. How about you?

Yuri Gagarin

#25. I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

Yuri Gagarin

#26. I can't think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.

Jimmy Carter

#27. If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!

Yuri Gagarin

#28. When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!

Yuri Gagarin

#29. Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it

Yuri Gagarin

#30. Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

Yuri Gagarin

#31. Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid ... Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.

Yuri Gagarin

#32. People often find it surprising that actors find photo shoots difficult, because you're very concerned about what's going on externally in those things when you have to be concerned with what's going on internally as an actor.

Max Irons

#33. I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.

Yuri Gagarin

#34. The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.

Yuri Gagarin