Marc Garneau Quotes

I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

Little boys are a ton of fun.

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

I listen to kids play a lot.

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.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

Kids are funny.

You get to become a kid again when you work with kids. They do crazy stuff.

To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

Cartoons make kids happy, and that's a great feeling.

Children are funny.

I've flown in space four times now, so it's going to be hard in that respect, but I certainly look forward to going back to Earth. I've been up here for a really long time and sometimes, when I think about it, I feel like I've lived my whole life up here.

Adjusting to space is easier than adjusting to Earth for me.

It was almost like being a child again because you felt like you were in your bedroom and it almost felt like no one was really watching you. So, you were just kind of having a bit of fun on your own doing silly voices in the bedroom.

I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.

There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Returning to Earth brings with it a great sense of heaviness, and a need for careful movement. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship.

I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.

If you take yourself too seriously, you're dead in the water. I think the key to all is to have a laugh, have fun, and express every desire you had, as a kid.