Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.

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

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.

I actually want to go up into space.

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!

When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.

I always knew I'd go to space.