Astronaut Quotes · Page 5

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

— Richard Branson

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

— John L. Phillips

It's a little surprising to me that I'm the first Houstonian to be an astronaut.

— Shannon Walker

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

— Gene Cernan

Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life.

— John M. Grunsfeld

Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine.

— Ellison Onizuka

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

— Kate Bush

“To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!”

— Steven Magee

The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread…

— Ilan Ramon

“This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth from this vantage, and for the…

— Ron Garan

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of…

— Paul McCartney

I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people…

— Mark Shuttleworth

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

— Julie Payette

I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized…

— Alfonso Cuaron

“I looked and looked but I didn't see God. [ Speaking about, in 1961, becoming the first human to enter space .]”

— Yuri Gagarin

I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut,…

— Dexter Fletcher

On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at…

— Christopher Reeve

I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an…

— Chris Lowell

Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the…

— Michio Kaku

When you talk to astronauts, the most profound thing when you finally go into space is the view - looking back at…

— Jeremy Hansen

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I…

— John L. Phillips

I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera,…

— Michael Light

Cowgirl is a spirit, a special brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes…

— Dale Evans

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the…

— Leroy Chiao

“«I flew the company’s last trip. The shuttle was packed with people not returning to Earth. They’d decided to spend the rest…

— Margrét Helgadóttir

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

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

— Robert Duvall

Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I know other astronauts share my feelings… And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.

— Gordon Cooper

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

— Sanford Biggers

Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one.

— Ronald McNair

It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.

— Future

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

— Julie Payette

If I couldn't be an actor, I would only consider being an astronaut, a sea otter, or a gynecologist.

— Leslie Nielsen

“Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.”

— Anonymous

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

— Sally Ride

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

— Steven Wright

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