Quotes About Yuri Gagarin

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 The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.

Lev Yashin

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

Andy Weir

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

John L. Phillips

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

Alexei Sayle

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I feel fine. How about you?

Yuri Gagarin

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

Yuri Gagarin

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

Yuri Gagarin

#12. Deep inside me there's a perpetual seething, like the bottom of a geyser, and I keep hoping that things will come to an eruption once and for all, so that I can turn into a different person.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Nikita Khrushchev

#14. When standing face to face with myself, I far too often refuse to look in the mirror. When standing face to face with God, there is no place where a mirror is not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Yuri Gagarin

#16. To Mom, who encouraged my fascination with reading, even when she didn't understand what I was reading.

Dana Marie Bell

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

Ellen Hopkins

#20. 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

#21. Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.

Max Lucado

#22. 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

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

Yuri Gagarin

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

Yuri Gagarin

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

Yuri Gagarin

#26. 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

#27. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#28. Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Vince Lombardi

#29. Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.

Flannery O'Connor

#30. 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

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

Yuri Gagarin

#32. Most young comedians would be lying to say that they weren't huge Weird Al fans when they were kids. Weird Al is probably the first person I ever realized had a career that was just making jokes.

Trevor Moore

#33. As one person always said "Good things come to those who wait." You don't have to be connivingly sneaky and passing judgement if one don't use protection, so you can have your fantasies. If you do others right, the lord will bless right judgements and knowledge.

Daaimah S. Poole

#34. If we concern first with God's Kingdom, we can inhabit all other kingdoms.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. While we read history we make history.

George William Curtis

#36. Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

Annette Bening

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

Yuri Gagarin

#38. It is from the well of St. Dunstan' said he, 'In which betwixt sun and sun, he baptised five hundred heathen Danes and Britons - blessed be his name!' And applying his black beard to the pitcher, he took a draught much more moderate in quantity than his encomium seemed to warrant.

Walter Scott

#39. 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

#40. 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

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

Yuri Gagarin

#42. I used to think there was only the divide, Silver and Red, rich and poor, kings and slaves. But there's much more in between, things I don't understand, and I'm right in the middle of it.

Victoria Aveyard

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

Yuri Gagarin