"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

#Space Quotes #Pioneers Quotes #Wagons Quotes

“At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.”
“The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2016). “Beyond This Point Are Monsters”, p.111, Soho Press
“I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.”
“I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.195, Delacorte Press
“There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.”
“There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.”
“Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims”

Source : Edmund Hillary (1984). “Ecology 2000: the changing face of earth”, Michael Joseph

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