Russell Baker Quotes

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

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

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!

Set impossible challenges. Then catch up with them.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.

Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

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

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.