4 Quotes Tagged: astronaut

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

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

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

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

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.