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 ARMSTRONGIt’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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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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.
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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.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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