Assigned Quotes
215 quotes by 195 authors
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
— Sally Ride
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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole…
— Sally Ride
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A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've…
— Richard Russo
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When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have…
— Junior Seau
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I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to…
— Helen Thomas
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Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.
— Linda Tripp
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In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old…
— Kevin Barry
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Heavenly Father has assigned us to a great variety of stations to strengthen and, when needed, to lead travelers to safety. Our most important and…
— Henry B. Eyring
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Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/
— John C. Maxwell
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In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of…
— Sarah Vowell
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The woman in charge of costuming assigned us our outfits and gave us a lecture on keeping things clean. She held up a calendar and…
— David Sedaris
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You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits.…
— Libba Bray
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If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is…
— John Henry Newman
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When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work…
— Khalil Gibran
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Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook anything important. Like…
— Hilari Bell
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Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation.…
— Muriel Barbery
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The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose…
— Michael J. Fox
Who Wrote These Assigned Quotes
195 authors contributed a total of 215 Assigned Quotes, led by these top contributors: