There is still no cure for the common birthday.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.

As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

I pray every day and think everybody should.

I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future.

I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.

I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.

I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.

The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.

To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit.

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.

You can't relive your life.

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

Too many people when they get old think that they have to live by the calendar.

Exploration of course is going to new places but I dont think we go to new places just solely to say well weve been there and come back interesting though it may be. To me each time we go farther into space we should use that to do basic research basic research that cant be done before you go there.

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

For all the advances in medicine there is still no cure for the common birthday.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind: Every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

The moment of twilight is simply beautiful.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'