Best 83 quotes of Neil Armstrong on MyQuotes

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. 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.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.

For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!

He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks ... and it required ... flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.

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.

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow.

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

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.

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.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.

I guess because deejaying has become my job, I tend to listen to really horrible stuff on my spare time. If you heard my iPod you'd be like, "what the hell?

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world.

I'm one of the more positive cats, but when people go off about everybody wanting to be a DJ, I don't doubt them either. I understand their point as well.

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo [space program] in 1961.

I tell you, we're going to be busy for a minute.

I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.

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.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

It never hurts to have friends around, so that's why you'd form a crew.

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.

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.

It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

Lindsay Lohan isn't a DJ, but because of her celebrity power she can do a gig somewhere, put her name on a flyer, and she'll probably bring in more people and make more money than I ever will.

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.