Alfred Worden famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.
-- Alfred Worden -
Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose, crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful, I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn't matter... the bond is there in my mind and memory; Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately in the nothingness of space.
-- Alfred Worden
-
Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.
-
First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.
-
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
-
I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.
-
Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.
-
Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.
-
I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.
-
When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
-
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
-
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
You may also like:
-
Alan Bean
Astronaut -
Alan Shepard
United States Naval Aviator -
Buzz Aldrin
Astronaut -
Charles Duke
Test pilot -
Edgar Mitchell
Aviator -
Frank Borman
Astronaut -
Gene Cernan
Fighter pilot -
Gordon Cooper
Astronaut -
Gus Grissom
Astronaut -
Harrison Schmitt
Geologist -
James Irwin
Astronaut -
Jim Lovell
Astronaut -
Neil Armstrong
Astronaut -
Pete Conrad
Astronaut -
Roger B. Chaffee
Astronaut -
Rusty Schweickart
Astronaut -
Scott Carpenter
Astronaut -
Wally Schirra
Aviator -
Walter Cunningham
Astronaut -
William Anders
Air Force Officer