The Moon Quotes

The moon is high. The sea is deep. They rock and rock and rock to sleep.

I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon.

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.

The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

We've gone from looking up at the moon to looking down at Instagram.

You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.

I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.

Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon.

Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean.

I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

They danced by the light of the moon.

America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

I'm spiritual! You know what spiritual means! Me and God has a good relationship. I'm in tune with the universe, the sun, moon, and stars. I'm in tune with the jinns that are all around us.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines.

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea.

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

The moon is at her crystal window / Spinning and weaving...

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves.

Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.

'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon.

To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.