Thomas Goddard Bergin quotes

And now 'tis man who dares assault the sky ... And as we come to claim our promised place, Aim only to replay the good you gave, And warm with human love the chill of space.
-- Thomas Goddard Bergin

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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

I always knew I was going to die in space.

I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.