Christa Quotes & Sayings

It seems to me that the difficult thing in life is to find what stirs you and move toward it. Mom put us first but also put us in the way of whatever moved her and, so, avoided the anxiety of the unknown, the fear of failure, the pain of opening up her heart and feeling her losses. Her selflessness was also her selfishness. — Christa Parravani

I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself. — Christa Wolf

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering. — Christa Wolf

People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental. — Christa Miller

I did 'Lonely Hearts' with John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Talk about getting over your fears. These guys were amazing! Also, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is one of my favorites. We've made 3 films together. He is such a generous, giving actor. — Christa Campbell

I love doing all of my own stunts. Anything. Even if they are telling me, 'No, no, no! You can't do that!' I'll do it. Like crashing my car through the gate, climbing up the building, kicking in a window ... I love doing all of that stuff. — Christa Campbell

I don't use a wallet. My money is just free-flowing in my bag. — Christa B. Allen

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip. — Christa McAuliffe

I like to carry a nice bag because then I can wear t-shirts and jeans all the time! — Christa Miller

The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered and senseless, can it bear the weight of before it cracks somewhere or other, splits at the joints? — Christa Wolf

It's really ridiculous to assume that people are improved by hearing someone tell the truth about them. — Christa Wolf

Coldness in everything. It comes from a long way off; it gets into everything. One must get out of the way before it reaches the core. If it does that, one won't feel even the coldness any more. Do you see what I mean? — Christa Wolf

I was going to make the little hound here part of your display, but you know, against all odds, I've found myself growing to like the little guy! You were going to be a girl transforming into a werewolf, but now I think you'll be part of my Hansel & Gretel display. I needed a trespassing little snoop! — Christa Carmen

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments. — Christa McAuliffe

If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement. — Christa McAuliffe

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years. — Christa McAuliffe

I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world. — Christa B. Allen

I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people. — Christa McAuliffe

Say it, Christa! Dammit, was I imagining things, or did you say that you loved me?" "I - " She paused. "I said it!" she whispered. "And you meant it?" She lowered her gaze and then her head. "I meant it. — Heather Graham

Four minutes," Walter said, "seems like four hours. — Christa Faust

I like to get a rise out of my mom with what I wear - I always go for the tallest heels or something super trendy. — Christa B. Allen

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson. — Christa McAuliffe

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men. — Christa McAuliffe

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. — Christa McAuliffe

I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it. — Christa Wolf

You can't drink 'English afternoon tea' in the morning," the barista said to her, his eyes blazing like shards of crystal meth about to ignite. "Do you want to be responsible for fucking up the universe? — Christa Carmen

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge. — Christa Campbell

It was hard telling those kids ... that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't have an opportunity to see them again, unless they stop by the house. Now during the summer, I got lots of notes; kids would stop by the house. I'd be pulling weeds or something and they would come up and give me a hug and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it, this is so wonderful!' and just get very excited about it. It was hard not being in school. I would have loved to have gone back to school. — Christa McAuliffe

Being loved continuously when you believe that you're unlovable is like throwing salt on a wound. It stings like acid. You want it desperately, instinctively knowing deep down you were wired to need it. But the more love given, the more unworthy of love you behave, constantly trying to find ways to make up for the void and pain that reside like a monster inside your heart. — Christa Black

He talked about the party line the way Catholics talk about the Immaculate Conception — Christa Wolf

I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key! — Christa Miller

Before I go on selling the joy of working with your spouse, I should make something clear: Although we have a great marriage, it is as trying as anyone's. — Christa Miller

I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are. — Christa Miller

My sympathies have always been for working-class people. — Christa McAuliffe

Courtney Cox got me this Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer. She wears it, too! If one of us finds a product we love, we buy it for the other. — Christa Miller

Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same. — Christa McAuliffe

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got. — Christa B. Allen

Eve wasn't sure what right the clown had to butcher the poor girl like that. In fact, most horror movies made her angry. Though the 'final girl' usually got out alive, she was stripped of so much by the time the credits rolled. — Christa Carmen

The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying 'we'? You cannot speak for me. I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say 'I'; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through. — Adrienne Rich

The happy times of pristine thinking and open minds, always favorable for beginnings, belonged now to the past, and we knew it. — Christa Wolf

I have lots of friends who are straight, privileged white guys, and I'm totally okay with them. I think they should have equal rights, just like he rest of us." Christa laughed again. Her eyes crinkled up, as though she actually thought I was funny. "As long as they don't flaunt it, right? — Robin Talley

At points in our lives, we have to choose the hills we're willing to die on. — Christa Allan

What is past is not dead; it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers. — Christa Wolf

I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce. — Christa Miller

I forget I can sing when I don't make a sound — Christa Black

Whoa, easy there. His bear was going into full aggressive mode. Almost like he thought Lizzie was his... — Christa Kelley

To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play in the preparation for war. The number of shameful secrets keeps growing incessantly, boundlessly. How meaningless all censorship taboos become, and how meaningless the consequences for overstepping them, when your life is in danger. — Christa Wolf

The past is not dead - it isn't even past — Christa Wolf

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done. — Christa McAuliffe

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space. — Christa McAuliffe

I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction. — Christa Wolf

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon. — Christa McAuliffe

The storms the wind, the rain have met me once again
And interrupted blue
The sky turned gray, turned cold, turned winter once again
And interrupted blue

But I'm here for now
Yes, I'm here

Though storm, though wind, though rain have met me once again
And interrupted blue

I'm still here — Christa Black

We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up! — Christa McAuliffe

My husband and I have a deal, which has worked out well: He cooks one Sunday, I cook the next. The kids set the table, and we eat in the dining room together, just as I used to do as a kid. — Christa Miller

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space. — Christa McAuliffe

You know, Dean said, gesturing with his uninjured hand. If we were in an action movie, this would be the scene where you tenderly dress my wounds. then the wailing guitar ballad would kick in and we'd end up rolling around on the bed in a slow motion montage.
If I were in Q, The Winged Serpent, Xochi replied, this would be the scene where I sacrifice you to Quetzalcoatl. — Christa Faust

The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle. — Christa McAuliffe

When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come. — Christa Wolf

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of. — Christa McAuliffe

I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful. — Christa McAuliffe

Writing means making things large. — Christa Wolf

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live — Christa Wolf

When I was asked to write an article about what it was like to work with my husband on a TV show, I assumed it was because people thought it would be titillating. He's a creator/writer/producer, I'm an actress; there must be lots of gossip, in-fighting, maybe some crazy-sexy time on the set, right? Actually, it's pretty tame. — Christa Miller

I seem to be inside a kind of artificial environment. Almost like a ... a simulacrum of Reiden Lake. — Christa Faust

Nobody wants to be alone in misery. Cara experienced no shame in admitting that need. Not only did she not want to suffer alone, she demanded co-suffering from all who dared love her. — Christa Parravani

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year? — Christa McAuliffe

Kyle's throat caught.

His boastful expression turned to panic. He made the universal sign of choking at her, and stamped his feet like a child having a temper tantrum in the candy aisle.

Chloe did not move. — Christa Carmen

And a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus. — Christa Faust

You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people. Until this dissatisfaction comes over you-you know what I'm talking about. Then you become moody, can even repulse people who are close to you, even people who love you, you know why. Those are bad times when everything goes cold, and they follow the times of great love ... — Christa Wolf

I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do. — Christa B. Allen

There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger. — Christa Wolf

I - I brought you from your home. But then discovered how much I loved you. Christa, you and Josiah are my life. And love is far stronger than any need for honor or glory in the West! You hold my heart in your hands. Carry it tenderly, my love. But carry it with you wherever you would go. The future is yours to decide. — Heather Graham

On my first day shooting '13 Going on 30,' Jennifer Garner had yellow tulips sent to my trailer. I'll never forget them. — Christa B. Allen

I cannot change the decisions that I have made in the past, but I can learn from them and make the most of the life that I am living now. — Christa Cervone

Here the scent of fake roses was underscored with the bright iron reek of blood. — Christa Faust

Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday. — Christa B. Allen

We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen. — Christa McAuliffe

What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second. — Christa Wolf

I am very protective of my family. — Christa Miller

Space is going to be commonplace. — Christa McAuliffe

I travel with chocolate - Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it. I share, but if I'm on my last one, I've been known to say, 'Sorry, I'm out!' — Christa B. Allen

Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it. — Christa Wolf

Hoping for something to change in the icy parts of our lives is not foolish. Springtime does come, and buds always bloom. — Christa Hesselink

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think? — Christa Wolf

I think the years leading up to 21 were a bit more fun than 21 and beyond might be. — Christa B. Allen

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman. — Christa B. Allen

When she started to fill the entire glass, he jerked the bottle out of her hand. She swirled on him, staring at him hatefully. "How dare you! You're not my brother, my father, my husband - " "That's right, Christa, I'm no one but a filthy Yank. And you're going to turn into a southern lush if you're not careful! — Heather Graham

My hair is too fine to bleach. I get so much breakage, it's not worth it to dye it. — Christa B. Allen

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans. — Christa McAuliffe

I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try. — Christa B. Allen

Rekers's fat begins under his nipples and increases exponentially until it eases back at his thighs. It looks as if a regular fat guy had some sort of seismic shift resulting in a landslide. A manslide. Chief Rekers is a walking manslide. — Christa Charter

I thought the doctor's diagnosis was the first step to mending her. I know now that a diagnosis is taken in like an orphaned dog. We brought it home, unsure how to care for it, to live with it. It raised its hackles, snarled, hid in the farthest corner of the room; but it was ours, her diagnosis. The diagnosis was timid and confused, and genetically wired to strike out. — Christa Parravani

Hi! Nice day for a — Christa Nardi

Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know. — Christa Wolf

Part of liberation is being free to do your own thing and letting everyone else be free to do theirs. — Christa Dickson

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can. — Christa McAuliffe

I could never belong to anyone who lies to me and doesn't respect who I am. — Christa Tomlinson

The first thing I did was lock myself in the bathroom and unwind my binders. I was moist and sour from adrenaline and fear sweat and I felt like I would die if I didn't rinse off. There was no soap and the rusty, lukewarm water dribbled out of the showerhead like blood from the wrist of a reluctant suicide. Still, it was better than nothing. — Christa Faust

I touch the future. I teach. — Christa McAuliffe