David M. Brown Quotes

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut. I started taking those steps, and then I realized it would be the chance of a lifetime. It would be a dream life: not just a job, but the whole life.

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'

I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon!

Most kids probably dream of becoming an astronaut. I was just the one that never grew out of it.

That was everything to me as a kid. When I'd see someone on MTV, it was like, 'Wow, they're the real deal.'

I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.

I was inspired by the men who walked on the moon. It really was my inspiration, I think, you know, as a kid of 9 years old - I know I'm dating myself, but - I thought, 'What a cool job!'

I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.

Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.

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

I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

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 don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

From day one, I have been told I am no different from the male astronauts. As a pilot, I flew in the sky. Now that I am an astronaut, I will fly in space.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

Believe it or not, I'd love to go to the moon.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an astronaut.

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.