Star Gazing Quotes

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts.

If I could live in space, I would definitely do that.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

I got into astronomy through an interest in religion.

I don't sit around wondering, 'Why am I here? Who made the stars?' I prefer to look at the stars and benefit from them rather than concern myself with how they got there.

Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.

But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

The strangest thing I've found is that when I got to space, I felt more comfortable in space that I've ever been on Earth before. I just felt this is my home.

Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.

OK, let's get this mother out of here.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

Directing is like looking at the stars on a cloudless night. You get away from all light sources, and you look up, and you see 50 points of light. And a minute later 100 and another minute later 1,000 and then 10,000. And then this swirling gigantic carpet above you, and somehow it all seems to connect.

Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them.

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?

Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.

I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.