I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
It's a little surprising to me that I'm the first Houstonian to be an astronaut. — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday. — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine. — Ellison Onizuka Copy Share Image
“To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be… — Philippe Perrin Copy Share Image
Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession… — Eric Frank Russell Copy Share Image
Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But… — Robert Schimmel Copy Share Image
You’ve got to believe you can be a standup before you can be a standup. You have to believe you can act… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always known I'd be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
“Get the girl to check the numbers,' said the astronaut. If she says the numbers are good, he told them, I'm ready… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile. — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
The prerequisite that people have a scientific or engineering degree or a medical degree limits the number of female astronauts. Right now,… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want… — Kay Cannon Copy Share Image
I wish that I was one of those kids who grew up saying I always wanted to be an astronaut and was… — Emily Calandrelli Copy Share Image
The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
The only negative thing is that I got into acting thinking, "One day I'll be a cowboy, the next day I'll be… — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization. — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life. — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From as young as I can remember, I wanted to be - in order - an astronaut, a geologist, and a biologist. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
I know other astronauts share my feelings… And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs. — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars. — Sanford Biggers Copy Share Image
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Like a lot of kids, I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. With me, it stuck more than most… — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when people find out I’m an astronaut, they ask, “So what do you do when you’re not flying in space?” — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
