Neil Armstrong Quotes

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a taciturn guy from what I can tell. He really saw the moon as looking like the American high desert. He wasn't someone who dealt in metaphors.

As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.

We got to the moon.

The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.

No matter what your age, gender, politics, nationality, social or financial standing, every single person inhabiting the planet Earth has the same reaction to him: 'Holy crap, Buzz Aldrin, you went to the moon!'

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.

Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.