James Irwin quotes

“As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.”
-- James Irwin

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“God walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.”
-- James Irwin

Source : "More Than Earthlings: An Astronaut's Thoughts for Christ-Centered Living". Book by James Irwin, 1983.

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“The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.”
-- James Irwin

Source : "Astronomically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Astronomy and Physics" by C.C. Gaither and Alma E Cavazos-Gaither, (p. 262), 2003.

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“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”

“Don't frown beautiful, you fascinate me.”

“My beautiful soul,"he murmured and caressed my cheek."When you have the ultimate selfless sacrifice it paid my wrong.You proved to be worthy of my devotion.Of Death's...love.”

“O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”

“You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”

Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

“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.”

“No one man is superior to the game.”

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation