Quotes about Neil Armstrong

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Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Robert A. Heinlein

2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.

Arthur C. Clarke

Mooooon! said the Ogre. Tranquility … Then he pointed at the full moon. Neil Armstrong walked in a sea of Tranquility. Then he added, It's made of cheese. But you have to take off the plastic before you put it on a burger. Mickey sighed. What's his story? the wraith asked. He's chocolate, Mikey said.

Neal Shusterman