The Moon Quotes
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the moon. He was the author of the fate that could make the mountains move.
...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.
This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.
...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.
My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.
I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.
There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.
There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.
You might be a redneck if you think that beef jerky and Moon Pies are two of the major food groups.
Love you always, miss you always... running day and night, leaving the place of sun and moon, of ice and snow. Never look back, never forget.
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to, because the cheese kept floating off in space.
One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.
Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit
The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.
If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only
The Moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons. It's time we build a rocket and go to stay.
I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.
The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.
We live by the sun, we feel by the moon, we love by the stars. We live in all things, all things live in us.