Stuart Roosa quotes

“It's the abject smallness of the earth that gets you.”
-- Stuart Roosa

#Space Quotes #Earth Quotes #Smallness Quotes

“Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

Source : Abraham Cowley, T. Sprat (1721). “Poems and other pieces published by the late Lord Bishop of Rochester; with some account of his life and writings”, p.719

“The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.22, Macmillan

“One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

“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.”

Source : "A galaxy faraway, so close: Adam Driver on 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. August 15, 2014.

“Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.”

“If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”

Source : "A fence built for peace" by Abba Eban, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

“As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India

“Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.”