Moon Quotes:

Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house; ... Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.

topic: Loneliness, Moon, Pity

How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?

source: Amy Lowell, “Lilacs”

topic: Spring, Flower, Moon, Deserted, Lilac

To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.

topic: Beautiful, Reflection, Moon

When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.

topic: Life, Stars, Moon

- Amy Neftzger

topic: Past, Moon, Differences, Waxing, Wealth And Success

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

- Anais Nin

topic: Moon, Men

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

- Anaxagoras

source: Fragment in Plutarch De facie in or be lunae, 929b.

topic: Moon, Brightness, Sun

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

- Anaxagoras

topic: Moon, Heaven, Purpose

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

- Anaxagoras

topic: God, Moon, Rocks

You can find me on the moon waxing and waning. My heart full of petals, every single one begging 'Love me, love me, love me. Whoever I am. Whoever I become.'

- Andrea Gibson

topic: Heart, Moon, Waxing

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.

- Ang Lee

topic: Dark, Moon, Perspective

What made the beauty of the moon? And the beauty of the sea? Did that beauty made you? Did that beauty make me? Will that make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes: already am, always was, and I still have time to be.

- Anis Mojgani

topic: Moon, Sea, Answers

...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.

- Anita Desai

source: Anita Desai (1980). “Clear Light of Day”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Moon, Garden, Risk

I love you right up to the moon - and back.

- Anita Jeram

source: "The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare". Book by Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram, 2012.

topic: Girl, Love You, Moon, Cheesy Love, The Moon And Back

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

- Anna Magnani

topic: Moon, Hands, Jewels

Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

topic: Stars, Spring, Moon, Azaleas, Cold Night

I love old moons. There is something humanized about them; they are dulled a little, and rich in color. One can stare all night at an old moon.

- Anne Bosworth Greene

topic: Moon, Night, Color

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Stars, Spring, Moon

No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Taken, Moon, Men, Our Planet Earth

...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.

- Anne Rice

topic: Moon, Remember, Werewolf

Remember always, he said, that nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this-that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life.

- Anne Rice

topic: Life, Stars, Moon, Gifts Of Life

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.

- Annie Besant

topic: Easter, Hero, Moon, Calculating, Easter Day

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

- Anthony Horowitz

topic: Moon, Names, People

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

- Antoine Predock

topic: Stars, Moving, Moon

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Husband, Moon, Sky

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Inspirational, Moon, Glasses, Inspiration To Write, Broken Glass

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.

- Antonin Artaud

topic: Moon, Thinking, Space, Gravitation, Balconies

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.

- Antonio Tabucchi

topic: Girl, Men, Moon, Old Person, Interstellar

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

- Archibald MacLeish

topic: Moon, Dying, Earth, Vertigo

The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Stars, Moon, Goal, Milestone, Satellites

The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Moon, Night, Views

. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Taken, Moon, Ideas, Watchers

The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The second thing he must do is to make the utmost possible use of the knowledge he has and not waste his energy crying for the moon. The third thing he must do is try and see clearly where his knowledge ends and his ignorance begins.

- Arthur David Ritchie

topic: Ignorance, Knowledge, Moon, Reasonable Man, Little Knowledge

I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.

- Arthur Goldberg

topic: Moon, Facts, Astronaut

Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.

- Arthur Lismer

topic: Moon, Yellow, Light

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.

- Arthur Machen

source: Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.212, Delphi Classics

topic: Dream, Stars, Moon, Moon And Stars

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

- Arthur Rimbaud

topic: Moon, Sorrow, Heartbreaking

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

- Arthur Smith

source: "Sun days" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.

topic: Moon, Different, Shapes

Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Team, Eye, Moon, Long Shadows, Blurry

I did four independent films during the break between 'Twilight' and 'New Moon.' I haven't even really had time to sit back and process it all. But when you do finally sit back and think about it, it's incredible.

- Ashley Greene

topic: Twilight, Independent, Moon

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

- Assata Shakur

source: Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.67, Zed Books

topic: Moon, Black, Revolutionary

Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us.

- Assata Shakur

topic: Ghetto, Moon, Black

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Men, Moon, Tree

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

- Auguste Rodin

topic: Moon, Sea, Shining

Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.

- Augustus William Hare

topic: Moon, Light, Two

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

- B. F. Skinner

topic: School, Men, Moon

A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.

- Bai Juyi

source: Bai Juyi, “Song Of Sunset On The River”

topic: Summer, Autumn, Moon, Emeralds

Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than The Donald. And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?

- Barack Obama

topic: Taken, Moon, Issues, Moon Landing, Biggie

People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.

- Barbara Cartland

topic: Book, Moon, People

The moon is a satellite that was constructed. It was built and anchored outside Earth's atmosphere as a mediating and monitoring device, a supercomputer or eye in the sky. It affects all life forms on this planet, beyond what you can currently grasp. In your history there are references to two moons around earth....

- Barbara Marciniak

topic: Eye, Moon, Sky, Supercomputers

If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.

- Bart Gordon

topic: Moon, Goal, Chinese

The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.

- Bayard Taylor

topic: Moon, Clouds, Light, Flying Free, Shrouds

But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

- Bayard Taylor

source: Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.311

topic: Stars, Moon, Night

A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.

- Ben Bova

topic: Military, Moon, Race

I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich enough in resources to be economically useful to Earth. In the final analysis, everything we do in space, if it does not help the people of Earth, all the people, it's not going to happen.

- Ben Bova

source: "Men on Mars, Women on Venus" by Jay McDonald, Bookpage, June 1999.

topic: Moon, Thinking, Two

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

- Ben E. King

source: "Song: "Stand By Me" ("Don't Play That Song!")". 1962.

topic: Friendship, Dark, Moon, Stand By Me

It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous world of electronics, ushering in the telephone, the radio and television. It was the White Race, who in a combined burst of energy and genius sent rockets to the moon and planted the feet of the White Man on extra-terrestrial territory in the last decade.

- Ben Klassen

source: "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, 1973.

topic: Moon, Men, Race, White Race, Electrical Power

The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

- Ben Parr

topic: Moon, Technology, Space, Outer Space

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.

- Ben Parr

topic: Moon, Space, Orbit, Mass Transit, Connecting The World

On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.

- Ben Sherwood

source: Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.18, Bantam

topic: Beautiful, Moon, Saws, Full Moon, Small Places

Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

- Ben Stein

topic: Hate, Moon, Russia

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

- Benjamin Walker

source: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Benjamin Walker on Dancing Ballet and His Repo-Man Days". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. January 21, 2013.

topic: Jobs, Moon, Cameras

Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon.

- Benny Hinn

topic: Mean, Moon, Air

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.

- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

topic: Art, Moon, Perfect

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

- Bernard M. Oliver

topic: Stars, Moon, Destiny

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

- Bernard Malamud

topic: Stars, Adventure, Moon, Strange World

The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather...

- Bernd Schuster

topic: Moon, Weather, Dating

Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: Moon, Bye, Alabama

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

- Beryl Bainbridge

source: Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Another Part of the Wood”, p.181, Penguin UK

topic: Fall, Moon, Snow

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

- Bette Davis

topic: Inspiring, Stars, Moon, Moon And Stars, Institute

Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.

- Bhartrhari

topic: Wise, Adversity, Moon, Ponder This

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

- Bill Maher

topic: Moon, Inheritance, Astronaut, Inheritance Tax

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

- Bill Nye

topic: Kids, Airplane, Moon, Space Program, Armstrong

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.

- Bill Nye

topic: Moon, People, Mars, Nasa, Spaceflight

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

- Bill Whittle

topic: Moon, Gone, Instagram, Looking Down

Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like..it's easy to love rain...and hawks. And it's easy to love wild plums...and the moon. But with people, seems like love's a hard thing to know. It gets all mixed up. I mean, you can love one person in one way and another person in another way. But how do you know you love the right one in every way?

- Billie Letts

source: Billie Letts (2001). “Where the Heart Is”, p.211, Hachette UK

topic: Rain, Mean, Moon, Hard Things, Love Rain

I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky...

- Billy Collins

topic: Stars, Moon, Sky

Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

- Billy Rose

source: "It's Only a Paper Moon" (song) (1933). Cowritten with E. Y. Harburg.

topic: Believe, Moon, Sea

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

- Black Elk

topic: Country, Fall, Moon, Falling Leaves

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Truth, Men, Moon, Seasons Change

When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming.

- Bob Denver

topic: Moon, Islands, Rockets

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast

- Bob Dylan

topic: Heart, Past, Moon, Replay, Yellow Moon

If you ever had your moon salted you'd know how painful that could be.

- Bobby Heenan

topic: Moon, Painful

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

- Bobby Sands

source: Bobby Sands (1998). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Mercier PressLtd

topic: Heart, Moon, People, Hunger Strike

Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer driver's know: a gas stop can be a traumatic experience. You need enough clearance on every possible side. You can't cut the turn too sharp or you'll clip the gas pump. Getting back on the freeway can be as challenging as sending a man to the moon.

- Brad Alan Lewis

topic: Cutting, Moon, Men, Toppings, Traumatic Experiences

This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.

- Brewster Kahle

topic: Education, Learning, Moon, Today Not Tomorrow, Scanning

Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the worldâ€¦

- Brian Froud

topic: Song, Passion, Moon, Chosen One, Faerie

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

- Brian K. Vaughan

topic: Moon, Thinking, Race, Space Race

We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell phone and Bruce Springsteen. There's no telling what we can accomplish.

- Brian Williams

source: "What Now? 22 Influential Citizens on the New American Era". www.esquire.com. January 20, 2009.

topic: War, Moon, Cells, Second World War

Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.

- Brock Yates

topic: Running, New York, Moon, Interstate, High Speed

Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.

- Brock Yates

topic: Moon, Tunnels, Car

Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Moon, Pointing Fingers

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

- Bruno Zevi

source: Bruno Zevi (1957). “Architecture as space: how to look at architecture”

topic: Art, Dark, Moon

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

- Bryan Adams

source: Song: When You Love Someone, 1997

topic: Music, Moon, When You Love Someone

The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, and the Earth. When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise -- then we can build a noble environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we shall perish.

- Buddhadasa

topic: Stars, Animal, Moon, Cooperatives

I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. That we are not tragedies stranded here beneath it.

- Buddy Wakefield

topic: Moon, Tragedy

That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)

- Bum Phillips

topic: Football, Boys, Moon, Car Wash

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

- Burt Rutan

topic: Moon, New Moon

The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000 people by 2024. If it is shown to be highly profitable, perhaps we will see 20,000 people traveling to orbit by 2035, and then thousands to the moon by 2050. If we make a courageous decision, like the program we kicked off for Apollo, we will see our grandchildren in outposts on other planets.

- Burt Rutan

topic: Future, Grandchildren, Moon, Profitable, Courageous Decisions

Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

topic: Beautiful, Moon, Blue, Foreboding, Blue Planet

I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'

topic: Moon, Self, Years, Languish

We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there...

topic: Moon, Might, Shoot For The Moon

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

topic: Moon, Men, People, Comets

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.

topic: Moon, Space, Transition, Space Program, Sputnik

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Moon, Snow, Shining, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, Lion Witch Wardrobe

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Powerful, Eye, Moon

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

- C.J. Sansom

source: C. J. Sansom (2008). “Dissolution: Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.293, Pan Macmillan

topic: Moon, Taught, Corruption

That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a few acres; its mountains and craters have been measured to within a few yards; while on the earth's surface there are 30,000,000 square kilometres (sixty times the extent of France), upon which the foot of man has never trod, which the eye of man has never seen.

- Camille Flammarion

topic: Knowledge, Eye, Moon, Craters

In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Moon, Extraterrestrial, Star Gazing

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Successful, Men, Moon, Bay Of Pigs, President Kennedy

In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

topic: Moon, Night, Vegetables

It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

topic: Moon, Lonesome, Lonesomeness, Full Moon

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

topic: Coffee, Eye, Moon

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

topic: Moon, Frogs, Golden

Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.

topic: Moon, Light, Depth, Creating Beauty, Sequence

- Carleton Young

topic: Motivational, Stars, Moon

Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.

- Carlos Bulosan

source: Carlos Bulosan, Epifanio San Juan (1995). “On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan”, p.88, Temple University Press

topic: Moon, Men, Light

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

- Carol Ann Duffy

source: Carol Ann Duffy (2013). “Mean Time”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

topic: Moon, Paper, Brown

Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.

- Carol P. Christ

topic: Moon, Waxing, Three, Feminine Energy, Menstruation

He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.

- Carolyn Meyer

source: Carolyn Meyer (2002). “Doomed Queen Anne: A Young Royals Book”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Stars, Moon, Moon And Stars

We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today,

- Carolyn Porco

source: "Space probe sees Xanadu on Saturn moon" by Robert Roy Britt, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2004.

topic: Moon, Territory, Today, Saturn, Titans

I'm a werewolf trapped in a human body." "Well, yeah, that's kind of the definition." "No, really. I'm trapped." "Oh? When was the last time you shape-shifted?" "That's just it - I've never shape-shifted." "So you're not really a werewolf." "Not yet. But I was meant to be one, I just know it. How do I get a werewolf to attack me?" Stand in the middle of a forest under a full moon with a raw steak tied to your face, holding a sign that says, 'Eat me; I'm stupid'?

- Carrie Vaughn

topic: Stupid, Moon, Body

Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.

- Casey Robinson

source: 1942 Line delivered by Bette Davis to Paul Henreid in Now, Voyager.

topic: Stars, Moon, Moon And Stars, Institute, Movie Lines

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: Falling In Love, Heart, Moon, Shoot For The Moon, Love Again

Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.

- Cesar Aira

topic: Flower, Moon, Bird, Elixir

It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

- Cesar Chavez

source: Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.144, Penguin

topic: Moon, Oil, People, Pesticides, Smog

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Moon, Cemetery

The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Moon, Imagination, Secret

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Moon, Light, Scary, Withered Leaves, Clouded

The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Nature, Dark, Moon, Dark Trees

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Nature, Winter, Moon

I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a chance to develop and mature some systems; long duration, deep space stuff; and you're close enough to get some help, via radio from Earth.

Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars. I'm more on the side that says we should go back to the Moon. I think there's a lot we can utilise the Moon for scientifically.

topic: Moon, Thinking, Space, Deep Space

The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.

topic: Moon, Thinking, Needs

The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.

topic: Moon, Broken, Scary, Only Time

We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it?

topic: Beautiful, Moon, Sky, Vibrancy