Astronaut Quotes · Page 6

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

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

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

— Anne McClain

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

— Daniel Handler

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Will Ferrell

When somebody says I wanted to be an astronaut my question is 'Did you apply?' And most people say no. And to…

— Anne McClain

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from…

— Ellison Onizuka

I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the…

— Arthur Goldberg

I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for…

— Michael J. Massimino

I was a graduate student in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan called for the construction of a new space station. I knew…

— Leroy Chiao

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an…

— Christa McAuliffe

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one…

— Neil Armstrong

Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do…

— Sylvia Earle

Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than…

— Chris Hadfield

At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as…

— John M. Grunsfeld

I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet,…

— Rachel Corrie

Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow—it's not all going to be over with a big…

— Gene Roddenberry

That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the…

— Maria Sharapova

We have never lost a crew member on the space station, but of course, the Columbia accident. I was - I'd already…

— Chris Hadfield

“An astronaut is someone who’s able to make good decisions quickly, with incomplete information, when the consequences really matter. I didn’t miraculously…

— Chris Hadfield

I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings…

— Laurel Clark

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

— Rege-Jean Page

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

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

— Christina Koch

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

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

— Eva Amurri

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

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Chris Hadfield

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

— Anne McClain

Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older…

— Enrico Fermi

I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And…

— Buzz Aldrin

Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a…

— Michael J. Massimino

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was…

— Kevin A. Ford

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the…

— Ellen Ochoa

The advice I was given was just to make sure you look out of the window occasionally. It's something no astronaut ever…

— Helen Sharman

“My experiences in the Astronaut Corps had taught me that you never know what will happen from day to day. It’s best…

— Leland Melvin