Astronaut Quotes

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Don't get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren't any.

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.

As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.

I watch a lot of astronaut movies....Mostly Star Wars. And even Han and Chewie use a checklist.

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

I'd have given my right eye to be an astronaut.

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that was true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't

A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.

Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.

The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.

The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill.

I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food.

I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...

Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.

Square astronaut, round hole. But somehow, I'd managed to push myself through it, and here was the truly amazing part: along the way, I'd become a good fit. It had only taken 21 years.

"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it.

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.

Astronauts: space activists.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.