Bob Denver Quotes

Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

I miss All Stars, by the way. I was just telling people: how am I going to get by until January?

When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German rocket scientists came after war and started designing rockets for NASA, for the moon landing and all that.

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!

I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question "Why?"

When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

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.

The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

I've gotten such good feedback from that [re-team with Wil Wheaton for Big Bang Theory appearance], and I hardly did anything.

We went to the moon and discovered Earth.

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."

So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it?

I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.

As I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come...I'd like to just (say) what I believe history will record. That America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. As we leave the Moon at Taurus- Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. "Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17."

We are the naked monkey that went to the moon. People seem to forget that.

Neil Armstrong, that spaceman, he went to the moon but he ain't been back. It can't have been that good.

Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. . . . Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.

I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.

The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.

When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon.

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.