“This must be what God sees. I was absolutely awestruck, not so much at what we had accomplished but at what made the accomplishment possible.”
Source: Countdown: An Autobiography (1988), p. 454
Context: This must be what God sees. I was absolutely awestruck, not so much at what we had accomplished but at what made the accomplishment possible. A machine produced by more than three hundred thousand Americans was circling the moon with three human beings aboard for the first time in history.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Frank Borman10
NASA astronaut 1928Related quotes
“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
Joni Eareckson Tada (1949) American artist
Source: The God I Love
“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
“We can only accomplish what our member nations allow us to accomplish”
Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007) 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations, President of Austria
quoted in the article The United Nations—How Strong a World Force?, in The Watchtower magazine, September 15, 1974.
Context: You must not expect the United Nations to accomplish miracles. We are made up of sovereign nations. We can only accomplish what our member nations allow us to accomplish.
“As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Emmitt Smith (1969) American football player and sports broadcaster
Scott Pitoniak (June 3, 2007) "Smith's feet flashing to a new beat", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, p. 1D, 7D.
“Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States