Top 213 Astronauts Quotes & Sayings

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

No astronauts look like George Clooney.

Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.

In the '60s astronauts were rockstars. Everyone wanted to be an astronaut.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.

It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad.

I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.

It's so astounding the amount of sacrifice the astronauts have to go through to do what they do and all the science involved in space exploration.

Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the 'overview effect,' return to Earth, and then impact their communities.

Russia will have a woman in space before the United States calls for a crash program for women astronauts.

Astronauts: space activists.

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

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

I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.

I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.

When we meet people who are astronauts or deal in astronomy, it's always really fascinating.

Sometimes astronauts feel a little ill or get minor scrapes. I trained as a crew medical officer to do basic treatment.

I think professional cosmonaut trainer in fact said that we are the only two [with Damian Kulash ] he found fit to be astronauts, which is ridiculous because we are far from fit from being astronauts. So you can imagine what was going on up there.

In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did.

Not until the space shuttle started flying did NASA concede that some astronauts didn't have to be fast-jet pilots. And at that point, sure enough, women started becoming astronauts.

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

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they see the whole earth like that big blue marble that was made famous by the flights that went to the moon. But the shuttle is much, much closer than those astronauts were. So we don't see the whole planet, the whole ball at once, we just see parts of it.

One might think of investment managers as astronomers and CEOs as astronauts. The two roles are radically different with distinct personality traits. Like astronomers, investment managers tend to be introverted, skeptical, and very analytical. CEOs, like astronauts, are the exact opposite, typically being extroverts, optimists, and, well, leaders.

If you read about the astronauts who went to the moon - the 12 who walked on it, and the others who orbited - all suffered serious mental trauma of one kind or another.

We are all astronauts on spaceship earth

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

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

One of the astronauts I came to admire the most is John Young.

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

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

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

We are going to mint new astronauts from all communities. We want to influence public policy and opinion... by changing the mindset.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts

The biggest technical challenge to sending astronauts on farther and longer missions is biomedical: How do we keep them healthy?

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

President Obama is launching a new $6 billion space policy that will ultimately take astronauts to Mars. Of course, it's $6 billion and $45 if the astronauts have a carry-on.

I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.

Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

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

I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model.

Why did I want to be an astronaut? That's not an easy question to answer because I know a lot of kids want to be astronauts when they grow up but it stuck with me and I think just maybe growing up in Houston and always having the astronauts and the Johnson Space Center in my backyard, I was always aware of the space program.

We had been told many times that astronauts would not make any mistakes. They were trained to be perfect.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts.

No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.

I attended a big human space flight conference in Beijing and I was going as myself. And really, there weren't any NASA astronauts there, I was the only so-called American Astronaut there. We had astronauts from most of the other countries, certainly from Russia, from France, from Japan, several other countries, but it was a little bit odd because here we are at an international gathering of a lot of astronauts and I'm talking about somewhere upwards of 30 or so astronauts, and I'm the only American. And I wasn't even there in an official capacity.

Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

I'm honored to be recognized among generations of astronauts who were at the forefront of exploring our universe for the benefit of humankind.