Quotes About The First Moon Landing

#1. I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.

Pamela Sargent

#2. First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

John F. Kennedy

#3. Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

Mark Roberts

#4. It began with meetings, five months before the Apollo 11 launch. The newly formed Committee on Symbolic Activities for the First Lunar Landing gathered to debate the appropriateness of planting a flag on the moon.

Mary Roach

#5. NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations.

Seth Shostak

#6. I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

Erich Maria Remarque

#7. Buzz Aldrin said something on the moon about a soft landing before 'stage-aware' Neil Armstrong said, "Houston, the Eagle has landed". People still argue about what the first words were on the moon.

Ray Palla

#8. You come back here, or I'll hero you! I'll thump you so you think you've had an adventure!

Robert Jordan

#9. There was a definite pull to him and in that moment I had to know why.

Nicole Gulla

#10. Only the foolish insist on making their own mistakes when they can learn from the mistakes of others. Only the wise will understand that success leaves clues, and those clues are there for you to use to achieve great things.

John Patrick Hickey

#11. Whatever you think is delusion.

Dainin Katagiri

#12. Clothes have special power. I'll always remember the raspberry colored v-necked silk sweater I was wearing on my husband and my first date. If I hadn't been wearing that sweater that night, would any of it have happened?

Delia Ephron

#13. There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

Buzz Aldrin

#14. The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.

Alfonso Cuaron

#15. I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.

Buzz Aldrin

#16. The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.

Ronald Reagan