Neil Armstrong Quotes

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.

I'm in a world so wide. It makes me feel small sometimes.

What inspires me is the universe.

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.

When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective. You're this tiny speck in a huge environment, and it's nice to be reminded of that.

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

It's amazing to see the Earth in its glory down there.

It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'

For me, watching Mohamed Salah play football is not unlike staring up at the stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe: it makes my own life seem nice and small.

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.

My favourite thing about being in nature is that I feel so small and kind of insignificant.

To see the Earth below you when we could take a break... to appreciate the environment around us was very special.

The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place.

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.

When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.