Astronaut Quotes · Page 4

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Anne McClain

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

— David Byrne

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

— William Shatner

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

— Daniel Handler

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

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

— Steven Magee

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

— Claude Nicollier

You an Astronaut Chick And That's The Only Thing That Matter. You Made Me On A Whole Another Level, Me and You…

— Future

The stupidest thing I ever did was turn down 'Terms of Endearment' to do 'Cannonball Run II.' Jim Brooks wrote the part…

— Burt Reynolds

“An astronaut is someone who’s able to make good decisions quickly, with incomplete information, when the consequences really matter.”

— Chris Hadfield

We fly to 106 kilometers. We've always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because…

— Jeff Bezos

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm…

— Natalie Portman

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

— Trent Reznor

Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at…

— J. G. Ballard

After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station…

— Dmitry Rogozin

I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was…

— Alan G. Poindexter

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed…

— Sidney Sheldon

Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the…

— Amartya Sen

As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble,…

— James Irwin

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers,…

— Adlai Stevenson

I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and…

— Michael J. Massimino

Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that…

— Eileen Collins

It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious…

— Dixie Lee Ray

The most important thing about an astronaut is you have to take for a given a person's done pretty well in school,…

— Leroy Chiao

From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

For me, the passion of being an astronaut was ignited at an early age. I have this recollection of looking at a…

— Jeremy Hansen

In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center…

— Jerome F. Lederer

I would require every producer of food to follow and have enforced a standard safety plan. We know how to produce safe…

— Marion Nestle

“Grand Turk Island is so named because it is the largest island in the Turks Islands, which is the smaller of the…

— Captain Hank Bracker

I had a lot of things I wanted to do… I want to be a teacher…I also want to be an astronaut…and…

— Tite Kubo

At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I meet people to know I’m not alone. I network like an astronaut on the moon.”

— Jarod Kintz

Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.

— Ben Lerner

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

— Todd Barry

I grew up in Spokane, Washington, and I can't recall ever not wanting to be an astronaut.

— Anne McClain

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

— Bill Maher

I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made…

— Peggy Whitson

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

— John L. Phillips

Now, as an astronaut, I have to bring a Sharpie with me everywhere - so I have a pen to sign autographs.

— Chris Hadfield