I think I'm going to go with the obvious for today's quote.
"We know well what Life can tell:
If you would not perish, then grow.
And today our fragile flesh and steel
Have laid our hands on a vaster wheel
With all of the stars to know
That the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.
-- from "Hope Eyrie" (1975) by Leslie Fish ( lyrics , YouTube)