Neil Armstrong Quotes

My wife grew up in Cleveland.

I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.

I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful.

If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.

I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.'

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.