Kalpana Quotes & Sayings

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past. — Kalpana Chawla

This planet below you is our campsite, and you know of no other campground. — Kalpana Chawla

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Wishing you a great journey. — Kalpana Chawla

She was quite pretty too in those days; indeed, perhaps she still was. But for some reason none of her boyfriends remained boyfriends for long. She had a very decided personality and fairly soon took to telling them what they should do with their lives and studies and work. She began to mother them or perhaps brother them (since she was something of a tomboy) - and this sooner or later took the edge off their romantic excitement. They even began to find her vivacity over-powering, and sooner or later edged away from her - with guilt on their side and pain on hers. This was a great pity, for Kalpana Gaur was a lively, affectionate, and intelligent woman, and deserved some recompense for the help and happiness she gave others — Vikram Seth

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do. — Kalpana Chawla

Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.' — Kalpana Chawla

I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying. — Kalpana Chawla

The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath. — Kalpana Chawla

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system. — Kalpana Chawla

Time appears to us as a continual stream, forever coursing from the past to the present. This stream has no banks visible to us on which we can rest from our journey into the future, yet this is where Kalpana now resides. Forever young, at the pinnacle of achievement, beyond space, at the edge of time. — Jean-Pierre Harrison