"As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible."

-- Gene Cernan

#Moon Quotes #Apollo Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine”
“Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand?”
“Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.”
“The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.”
“I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.”
“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.321, Oneworld Publications
“I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But itâ€™s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home. I miss my best friend. Iâ€™ve met some great guys here, but I didnâ€™t grow up with any of them playing cops and robbers in my back garden. I donâ€™t feel like they are real friends. I havenâ€™t kicked them in the shins, stayed up all night on Santa watch with them, hung from trees pretending to be monkeys, played hotel, or laughed my heart out as their stomachs were pumped. Itâ€™s kind of hard to beat that.”
“I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.”

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