Famous Quotes

"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."

Christa McAuliffe on Travel

More quotes about Travel

• "It is better to travel well than to arrive."

  Buddha on Travel

• "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."

  Maya Angelou on Travel

• "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more."

  Thomas Jefferson on Travel

• "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Travel

• "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

  Saint Augustine on Travel

More quotes by Christa McAuliffe

• "The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."

• "I touch the future. I teach."

• "If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done."

• "NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space."