Scott Kelly Quotes

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.

Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.

I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.

I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.

Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.

We are absolutely ready to go to Mars. It's going to be a fantastic journey getting there and very exciting times.

America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.

I believe in exploration, and I will miss being on the front lines of that endeavor. On one hand, I look forward to going home, but it's something that's been a big part of my life, and I'm going to miss it.

We're fortunate to have football on the space station.

I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it in stride because that’s what I had to do to get into space. That’s where I belong, and I’m pretty good at it.

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill.

My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere.

Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long.

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.