Neil Armstrong Quotes

This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Blow Dust Fog Ground Increase Land
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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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Boots Footprint Fraction Moon Sand
You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Expectation Handle Life Need Preparation Unexpected Wrong
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

Class History Reading Regret
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

Blue Earth Eyes Giant Planet Pretty Space Stuck Thumb
Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

One Liner Remember Rock
Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Case Change Drama Improvement Science Space Technology
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 ARMSTRONG

Deep Earth God Greatness Man Moon Walk
I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Business Busy Dedication
Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Fly Freedom Joy Pilot
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Atom Century Development Energy History Light Remember Space Technology
The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Business Fruit Importance Plant Progress Success
The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Moon Spectacular View
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 ARMSTRONG

Close Earth Horizon Interesting Place Pronounce Quite Recommend Sun Surface
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Boy Dreamss Education Important Inspirational
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Bite Business Motivational Overconfident Snap Thinking Try
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

Believe Giving Goodness Heart Heartbeat Lord Run Street
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Adult Business Life Risk
I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Dreams Honesty Moon Surprise
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Advantage Avoid Characteristics Craft Fly Manner Natural Pilot
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Earth Planet Thumb
I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Comfortable Level Public

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