Ellen Ochoa Quotes

I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.

Ellen Ochoa

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• Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Experience
  • Health

• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Right
  • Spring
  • Determination

• No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Family
  • Law
  • Problem

• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Better
  • See

• No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Thought
  • Fight
  • Patience

• Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • May
  • Animal

• When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Men
  • Society

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • New
  • Year

• I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

  

  Barber Conable
  • You
  • Democracy
  • Will

• Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Them

• I'm bad at math.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Bad
  • Math

• When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Time
  • New
  • Chapter

• If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Band
  • Beethoven

• It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

  

  Joel Coen
  • Hope
  • Funny

• Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Imagination
  • Marriage

• I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • May
  • Hope
  • Science