Famous Quotes

"I did not come to NASA to make history."

Sally Ride on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Sally Ride

• "The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience."

• "The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience."

• "The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."

• "It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission."

• "For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did."