Astronaut Quotes · Page 5

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an astronaut.

— Drew Van Acker

“Which astronaut wears the biggest helmet? A: The one with the biggest head!”

— Johnny B. Laughing

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

— Chris Hadfield

I'm an astronaut & my next mission is to explore uranus!

— Anonymous

I joined the Army out of a deep sense of duty, but wanting to be an astronaut feels more like my destiny.

— Anne McClain

Astronaut hot, Im that kind. Stacks on stacks, racks on racks.

— Waka Flocka

I wanted to become president, and I wanted to become an astronaut. Because I was really good at math.

— Joel Embiid

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

— Anonymous

You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a…

— Richard Dawkins

I wanted to become an astronaut because I believe that the exploration of space by humans is extremely important.

— Shannon Walker

I've done a lot of astronaut training through the world, Russia, America. And I could always beat the guys on what they…

— Wally Funk

I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted…

— Natalie Portman

Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.

— Artie Lange

It's extremely humbling to look around the astronaut office, see how much experience there is, see how many lessons there are to…

— Anne McClain

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

— Gregory Benford

How come, just as the rocket is launching, the astronauts don't also shoot some fireworks out the window? It would make the…

— Jack Handey

I remember looking at the moon as an 8-year-old and marveling that there were two astronauts in a lander on the surface,…

— Leroy Chiao

I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut.…

— Michael J. Massimino

I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I…

— Joan Jett

We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches…

— Fritz Leiber

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and…

— Conan O'Brien

She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he…

— Katherine Paterson

It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women…

— Debora Spar

The 20-G Centrifuge is our largest facility certified for use by humans. Its capabilities make it a unique NASA resource and a…

— Jeff Smith

While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years.…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

— Celeste Ng

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

— Helen Sharman

Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.

— Steve Carell

Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth.

— Mitt Romney

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

— Sunita Williams

“No one is excluded from the astronaut corps based on penis size.”

— Mary Roach

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

— Sally Ride

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

It doesn't matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

— Bad Bunny

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

— Chris Hadfield

Never in a million years would I have thought I could have been an astronaut candidate.

— Jonny Kim

How many actresses get to say that they played an astronaut? Those roles don't come easy.

— Pooja Batra

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

— Dennis Quaid

I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.

— Alexey Leonov

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

— Jim Lovell