Neil Armstrong

"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."

- Neil Armstrong

"I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

- 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

"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine."

- 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 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."

- Neil Armstrong

"When you get a different vantage point, it changes your perspective ... It allows us to see things that maybe we should have seen a long time ago."

- 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

"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."

- Neil Armstrong

"NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people."

- Neil Armstrong

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

- Neil Armstrong

"That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

- Neil Armstrong

"Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed."

- Neil Armstrong

"That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."

- Neil Armstrong

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

- Neil Armstrong

"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work."

- Neil Armstrong

"That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind."

- Neil Armstrong

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

- Neil Armstrong

"Geologists have a saying - rocks remember."

- Neil Armstrong