Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
-
-
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Start at the end and work back.
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 -
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 -
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG