Famous Quotes By Neil Armstrong
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of
Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can
remember.
~ Neil Armstrong
Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
~ Neil Armstrong
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you
can come to being a bird.
~ Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We
came in peace for all mankind.
~ Neil Armstrong
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
~ Neil Armstrong
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste
any of mine.
~ Neil Armstrong
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to
waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
~ Neil Armstrong
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved
substantially more than we actually did.
~ Neil Armstrong
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the
ledger of our daily work.
~ Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
~ Neil Armstrong
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to
face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to
do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
~ Neil Armstrong
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
~ Neil Armstrong
If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part
of it.
~ Neil Armstrong
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or
understand.
~ Neil Armstrong
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put
up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I
didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
~ Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you
because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an
interesting place to be. I recommend it.
~ Neil Armstrong
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
~ Neil Armstrong
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
~ Neil Armstrong
Research is creating new knowledge.
~ Neil Armstrong
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and
yet far too little for the next 10.
~ Neil Armstrong
The Eagle has landed.
~ Neil Armstrong
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not
forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and
our opportunities are unlimited.
~ Neil Armstrong
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time,
and a lot of travel.
~ Neil Armstrong
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
~ Neil Armstrong
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job,
and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
~ Neil Armstrong
Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get
overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
~ Neil Armstrong
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight.
Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
~ Neil Armstrong
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