Jim Lovell Quotes

I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

We are in a troublesome period, and some "nonsense" as you term it — but this is a great nation with a high purpose, and we shall come to our senses and resume our course.

When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn't whether we'd get there, it was only when we'd get there.

But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

Vatican II and the Space/Information Age began in the same eye blink of history, with John XXIII's opening speech of Vatican II on Oct. 11, 1962, following John F. Kennedy's call for a round trip to the moon a month earlier.

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

My father once told me when I was a young girl that I was destined to do great things. His belief in my abilities and ambition is rooted deeply in the spirit of Malawians; resilient and determined for a better Malawi and a better Africa.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.