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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHistory will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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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.
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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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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 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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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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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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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