As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHe did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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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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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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