Neil Armstrong Quotes
It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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.
You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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.
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.
The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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.
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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.
Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
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.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
Lindsay Lohan isn't a DJ, but because of her celebrity power she can do a gig somewhere, put her name on a flyer, and she'll probably bring in more people and make more money than I ever will.
