Sally Ride Best Quotes & Sayings

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did. — Sally Ride

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure. — Sally Ride

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same. — Sally Ride

I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see. — Sally Ride

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. — Sally Ride

We need to make science cool again. — Sally Ride

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. — Sally Ride

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket! — Sally Ride

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. — Sally Ride

When you talk to young girls these days about their role modles, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie or an astrophysicist and astronaut like Sally Ride, or a zoologist like Jane Goodall. Instead, they look to someone like Madonna ... — W. Ann Reynolds

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in. — Sally Ride

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

On both of my flights, everything went very well. — Sally Ride

Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards.
Young Gillian Owens: What are you doing?
Young Sally Owens: Summoning up a true love spell called Amas Veritas. He can flip pancakes in the air. He'll be marvelously kind. And his favorite shape will be a star. And he'll have one green eye and one blue.
Young Gillian Owens: Thought you never wanted to fall in love.
Young Sally Owens: That's the point. The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist. And if he doesn't exist I'll never die of a broken heart. — Alice Hoffman

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program. — Sally Ride

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. — Sally Ride

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. — Sally Ride

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth. — Sally Ride

The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that. — Sally Ride

So I decided on science when I was in college. — Sally Ride

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids? — Brad Meltzer

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth. — Sally Ride

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do. — Sally Ride

No, there wouldn't be," Holden said. "It'd be entirely different." Sally looked at him; he had contradicted her so quietly. "It wouldn't be the same at all. We'd have to go downstairs in elevators with suitcases and stuff. We'd have to call up everyone and tell 'em goodbye and send 'em postcards. And I'd have to work at my father's and ride in Madison Avenue buses and read newspapers. We'd have to go to the Seventy-second Street all the time and see newsreels. Newsreels! There's always a dumb horse race and some dame breaking a bottle over a ship. You don't see what I mean at all." "Maybe I don't. Maybe you don't, either," Sally said. Holden stood up, with his skates swung over one shoulder. "You give me a royal pain," he announced quite dispassionately. — J.D. Salinger

When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person. — Sally Ride

I had both male and female heroes. — Sally Ride

You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it. — Sally Ride

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. — Sally Ride

I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model! — Sally Ride

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident. — Sally Ride

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. — Sally Ride

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today. — Sally Ride

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program. — Sally Ride

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong. — Sally Ride