Top 64 Quotes by Sally Ride

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.