I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats ...

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.

The Eagle has landed.

Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!

There are two of them up here.

Start at the end and work back.

Hey, we missed the whole thing.

People love conspiracy theories.

Research is creating new knowledge.

There are places to go beyond belief.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

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

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

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

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

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.

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

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

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

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

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

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

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

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

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

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