Valentina Tereshkova Quotes

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

Those above are going down, those below are going up.

The world is like a ladder: some go up and some go down.

I'm still on the ground, so I just do my thing.

I felt guilty about what happened on 'Twin Peaks.' All of a sudden, to have that kind of payoff for doing so little seemed very strange.

I think everyone expects if you're in the lead, or if you're a favourite to win, you will win, and if you don't, then you're in a slump. It's not the case.

I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.

I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.

The shorter the game is then the bigger the chance of an upset.

You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it.

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.