Sally Ride Quotes

When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

Sally Ride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: astronaut
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 26, 1951 - July 23, 2012

Topics

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Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good.

Jim Bakker

GoodI AmYouKnowYoungMost

No matter how the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, states are making progress in developing strategies to provide more access to quality health care coverage.

John Hickenlooper

HealthQualityProgressCareRules

I'm focused on giving Argentinians better opportunities.

Mauricio Macri

OpportunitiesBetterGivingFocused

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

John Podhoretz

IntelligenceKindRestlessCritical

In American politics, the deepest rivalry is between the rational world and the right wing of the GOP, who are increasingly marginalized in their view that America cannot take on the big challenges.

Tom Steyer

PoliticsChallengesWorldAmerican

I have a fondness for technology. It's great to spend hours puttering around with mechanical things gotten from junkyards and visualizing what their use might be. Especially if you come across a gadget or tool and you don't know what it is and you try to figure it out. I'm fascinated by processes, whatever they might be.

Roger Zelazny

TechnologyGreatYouKnowTryOut

It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

Rupert Graves

YourselfTalkingYouAlwaysInterest

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

Russel Honore

MyselfGoStaySomethingReached

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

Lorraine Toussaint

I AmProudPrideI CanBurstAm

My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read!

Judy Blume

HusbandLovedYouKnowReminisceUs

The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He's not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation.

Chuck Todd

PowerStepChanceStoryDirection

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.

Sheryl Sandberg

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