Astronaut Quotes · Page 5

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

— Muhammad Ali

“Despite not being an astronaut or ever wanting to go to space, I can’t help but feel a sense of awe.”

— B.C. Chase

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

— Will Ferrell

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

— John L. Phillips

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

— Claude Nicollier

“Every time I see a USA rocket launch, I sit there thinking ‘What an obscene waste of money’.”

— Steven Magee

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

— Daniel Handler

Army astronauts have a very proud legacy in the astronaut program.

— Anne McClain

“After an orange cloud — formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and caught up by air currents…

— Vladimir Kovalyov

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got…

— Robert Crippen

I'd love to go to America - I'd love to be an astronaut. I'd love to just do loads of different crazy…

— Charlotte Crosby

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin

— Clive Barker

“I saw sunrises fade and burn among fleets of sparks. The moon blossomed like a lily carved of bone... The Death of…

— Lewis Turco

From day one, I have been told I am no different from the male astronauts. As a pilot, I flew in the…

— Liu Yang

“From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the…

— Ed Mitchell

I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be…

— Lisa Joy

Mental fitness is obviously important to being an astronaut, but so it physical fitness. For example, space walks are extremely physically demanding.…

— Shannon Walker

No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety…

— William E. Burrows

I think professional cosmonaut trainer in fact said that we are the only two [with Damian Kulash ] he found fit to…

— Trish Sie

At every step of the way, when I had trouble, there were people that came in, in my life that helped me.…

— Michael J. Massimino

There was a point in my life where I either wanted to be an astronaut, an actor, a veterinarian, or a pirate.…

— Emily Bett Rickards

It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young…

— Sally Ride

I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their…

— Leroy Chiao

A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather…

— Taylor Wang

There's a huge amount of pressure on every astronaut, because when you get right down to it, the experiments that are conducted…

— Sally Ride

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

— William Shatner

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

— David Byrne

Most kids probably dream of becoming an astronaut. I was just the one that never grew out of it.

— Christina Koch

Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??

— Fran Lebowitz

I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.

— Anne McClain

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

— Chris Hadfield

I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

— Eva Amurri

If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month…

— Phoebe Robinson

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

— Scott Carpenter

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

— Duane G. Carey

I like the fact that, as an actor, one day I can be the president. I can be an astronaut.

— Rege-Jean Page

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

— Robert Duvall

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

— Anonymous

From as young as I can remember, I wanted to be - in order - an astronaut, a geologist, and a biologist.

— Kathleen Rubins

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

— Sanford Biggers