90 Rocket Quotes

Following is our list of rocket quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about rocket science.

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Famous Rocket Quotes

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department. — Tom Lehrer

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. - Sheryl Sandberg

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

It looks like if you bombard Earth with photons for a while, it can emit a Roadster. — Andrej Karpathy

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. — Gary Sinise

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. — John Glenn

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet. - Wernher Von Braun

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet. — Wernher Von Braun

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! - David Farragut

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! — David Farragut

You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever. — Lil Wayne

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket. — Wernher Von Braun

Houston, we've had a problem here. — Jim Lovell

Come up and be a kite,
 On a diamond flight! - Kate Bush

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight! — Kate Bush

Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center — Morihei Ueshiba

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. - Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. — Les Brown

Short Rocket Quotes

  • Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved. — Mohammed Omar
  • The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. — Lyndon B. Johnson
  • There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth. — J. K. Rowling
  • Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed. — Nicola Sturgeon
  • If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life. — Tommy Lasorda
  • You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help. — Bill Watterson
  • What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em? — Bill Watterson
  • Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. — John Carmack
  • I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer. — Cindy Crawford
  • It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science. — Steven Adler

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Space Rocket Quotes

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option. — Wilson Greatbatch

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. — Stephen Hawking

Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945) — Arthur C. Clarke

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes. — Brian K. Vaughan

If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years. — Wernher Von Braun

No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero-the temperature of interplanetary space. — Nikola Tesla

I see why now Tohno-kun is different from the others. Like the rocket shooting off into space, on the loneliest journey to the far end of the solar system. Because he's always looking at something beyond me. He can never see me. I cried myself to sleep, thinking of him. — Makoto Shinkai

I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems but rather the limits of the human frame that will make the final decision as to whether manned space flight will eventually become a reality. — Wernher Von Braun

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on. — Buzz Aldrin

At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo -- slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space. — Bernard Cooper

Rocket Science Quotes

Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do. — Byron Dorgan

Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape. — Preet Bharara

It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance. — Clement Mok

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge. — Dave Ramsey

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. — Sally Ride

Cycling is not rocket science. — Jens Voigt

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated — James W. Pennebaker

What patients want is not rocket science, which is really unfortunate because if it were rocket science, we would be doing it. We are great at rocket science. We love rocket science. What we’re not good at are the things that are so simple and basic that we overlook them. — Laura Gilpin

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon. — Robert Kiyosaki

When you're a brown Muslim from Iran talking about Jesus on TV, you need to keep your cool at all times, OK? That's not rocket science. — Reza Aslan

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More Rocket Quotes

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses. — Daniel Berrigan

Today, at the initiative of the Russian, the first round of talks between Ukraine and Russia took place. These talks took place while our territory and cities were being bombed, being shelled. We could see the synchronization of the shelling with the negotiation process. I believe that in this unsophisticated way Russia is trying to put pressure. Don’t waste time. We do not accept such tactics. Fair negotiations can happen when one side does not hit the other side with rocket artillery at the moment of negotiations. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth. — Tom Lantos

I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees. — Walt Disney

What we learned is that when you conduct experiments, you should remember to hold back resources to give needed rocket boosters to the winning experiments. — Jeff Lawson

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket. — Kary Mullis

For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days. — Lady Gaga

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating. — Julia Roberts

By the end of January 1946, 160 Nazi scientists had been secreted into America. The single largest group was comprised of the 115 rocket specialists at Fort Bliss, Texas, led by Wernher von Braun. — Annie Jacobsen

We are on the threshold of total war. If the Israeli's march into Gaza they will fail to root out the thousands of Hamas fighters there. The arsenal of rockets and missiles in the region is enormous. The rest of the region is prepared to go to war. It's not just Iran. — Douglas Macgregor

I've decided to become a member of the Houston Rockets. I feel it's the best place for me and I am excited about joining the Rockets and I'm looking forward to a great season. I want to thank the fans in Los Angeles and wish them the best. — Dwight Howard

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That is less money for the basics like food, health and clothes. — Metiria Turei

When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens. — Tom Hodgkinson

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away. — Gary Oldman

It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn. — Cesar Chavez

World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields. — Philip Roth

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth. — John Mellencamp

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship. — Gregory Harrison

The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon carried a red flag. The first photograph of the far side of the Moon was made with a Soviet camera. If a man orbits the earth this year his name will be Ivan. — John F. Kennedy

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ. — Warren Buffett

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