Quotes About Cosmonauts

#1. I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

Valentina Tereshkova

#2. Whenever we went on a trip, picnic, or business trip, I was always with my dad, and I would just always be in contact with cosmonauts, and I thought it would be always normal to be with them.

Roman Romanenko

#3. I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

Kevin A. Ford

#4. I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

Valentina Tereshkova

#5. All children of cosmonauts went to one school. We all lived in the same neighborhood, Star City, and all of us, children of cosmonauts, were in the center of attention from the teachers and general inhabitants of the Star City, and so it was difficult in that respect.

Roman Romanenko

#6. (The Soviet space agency did not traditionally give cosmonauts steak and eggs before launch; it gave them a one-liter enema.) Fahey,

Mary Roach

#7. If we are to send people, it must be for a very good reason - and with a realistic understanding that almost certainly we will lose lives. Astronauts and Cosmonauts have always understood this. Nevertheless, there has been and will be no shortage of volunteers.

Carl Sagan

#8. No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.

William E. Burrows

#9. We thought our careers as cosmonauts - we were young then - would end with a flight to Mars. But, you see, life has made some course corrections.

Gherman Titov

#10. 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.

Mark Shuttleworth

#11. Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.

Arthur C. Clarke

#12. Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.

Valentina Tereshkova

#13. Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

Harrison Salisbury

#14. Smack me if we ever get that awful."
"But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?"
"We shall work out a smacking code.

Gina Damico

#15. Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

Michael Josephson

#16. One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

Pat Conroy

#17. Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#18. Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him

Tim Kreider

#19. Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. There is one story and one story only.

Robert Graves