Yuri Gagarin Quotes

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet cosmonaut and the first human in space (12 April 1961).

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Native Name: Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин

Alternative Names: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin • Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin • Yuriy Alekseyevich Gagarin • Yuriy Alexeyevich Gagarin • Yury Alekseyevich Gagarin • Yury Alexeyevich Gagarin • Yuriy Gagarin • Yury Gagarin

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I looked and looked but I didn't see God.

[Speaking about, in 1961, becoming the first human to enter space.]

I am a friend, comrades, a friend!

Let's go! (Russian: Поéхали, Poyekhali!)

When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!

Quoted in Космос. Время московское. Сборник документов

Many people are interested in my biography. I have read in a newspaper that some irresponsible persons in the United States of America, who are distant relatives of the Gagarins princes and think that I am one of their offsprings. I have to disillusion them. I am a simple Soviet man. I was born March 9, 1934, to the family of a collective farmer. The place of my birth: Smolensk region, Gzhatsk district, the village of Klushino. I’ve never heard and don’t know any princes or nobility in my family tree. Before the revolution my parents were poor peasants. The older generation of my family, my grandfather and grandmother, were also poor peasants.

I looked and looked but I didn't see God.

Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!

Небо очень чёрное. Земля голубая. Всё видно очень ясно.

Translation: The main force in man — is the power of the spirit.

Rays were blazing through the of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.

Quoted in 108 минут, изменившие мир

If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!

Мисля, че колкото повече хубави книги прочита човек, толкова по-разумен, по-грамотен и по-образован става.

An astronaut cannot be suspended in space and not have God in his mind and his heart.