Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.

The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

I actually want to go up into space.

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.

Westward, ever westward.

The history of America is the history of families moving.

American History is largely the record of the adjustment of a migrating people to their environment.

Go and travel thither to inhabit or remain there, to build and fortify … take and lead in the same voyages with him … such and so many of our subjects as shall willingly accompany him…

When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

If I could miracle myself away, I would live out West.

America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.

Maybe we all want to burn off across the horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into some unknown territory and meet ourselves out there.

They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.