The Moon Quotes
The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.
Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.
Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.
High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"
Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds . . . the race will survive.
There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.
Oh sky, without me, do not change, Oh moon, without me, do not shine; Oh earth, without me, do not grow, Oh time, without me, do not go. ...Oh, you cannot go, without me.
Walk to the well. Turn as the earth and the moon turn, circling what they love. Whatever circles comes from the center.
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.
The white saucer like some full moon descends / At last from the clouds of the table above.
It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies
The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.
I'm being followed by a moon shadow Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow... Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light ...and are you going to stay the night?
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.
An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.
One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Mötley Crüe could be the first band to play on the moon.
You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?
A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.
Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
Motivation has to come from within. I make up my mind to shoot for the moon. Even if I don't make it, I'll be among the stars.
It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.
The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.
All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH.
Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.
For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.
And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'.
Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon
Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.
Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.
Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.
It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.
