Moon famous quotes
04-09-2025
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Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.
-- A. E. Housman -
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
-- A. E. Housman -
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
-- Aberjhani -
Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.
-- Abraham Cowley -
I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
-- Ace Frehley -
If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!
-- Adam Young -
I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.
-- Adele -
I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that.
-- Ai Yazawa -
The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.
-- Ai Yazawa -
Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.
-- Aino Kallas -
Someone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.
-- Al Berto -
To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
-- Al Gore -
The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
-- Al McGuire -
When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
-- Alain de Botton -
We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
-- Alan Bean -
As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.
-- Alan Bean -
But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.
-- Alan Bean -
Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'
-- Alan Bean -
It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.
-- Alan Bean -
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
-- Alan Parsons -
The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.
-- Alan Parsons -
I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.
-- Alan Shepard -
If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.
-- Alan Shepard -
Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?
-- Alan Shepard -
On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured up to Hatteras . . . I can see [lake] Okeechobee. Identify Andros Island. Identify the reefs.
-- Alan Shepard -
Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.
-- Alan Shepard -
There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.
-- Alan Shepard -
I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.
-- Alan Shepard -
I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.
-- Alan Shepard -
When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried
-- Alan Shepard -
It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons
-- Alan Stern -
This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.
-- Alan Stern -
It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.
-- Alan Stern -
If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.†We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.
-- Alan Watts -
This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.
-- Albert Camus -
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
-- Albert Einstein -
Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows on mountains, which water no doubt deposited there enveloped in sticky mud, and which were prevented by coldness and dryness of the stone from petrifying completely. Very striking evidence of this kind is found in the stones of Paris, in which one very often meets round shells the shape of the moon.
-- Albertus Magnus -
In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest...
-- Alexander Smith -
The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
-- Alfred Kreymborg -
It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon....
-- Alfred Noyes -
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--riding-- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
-- Alfred Noyes -
Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.
-- Alfred Worden -
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
-- Algernon Blackwood -
The clue to one's next step toward the door of initiation may be revealed at the Full Moon during the sign of Taurus.
-- Alice Bailey -
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.
-- Alice Meynell -
A woman by her very nature is maternal -- for every woman, whether ... married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological, psychological or spiritual mother -- she knows intuitively that to give, to nurture, to care for others, to suffer with and for them -- for maternity implies suffering -- is infinitely more valuable in God's sight than to conquer nations and fly to the moon.
-- Alice von Hildebrand -
(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.
-- Alice Walker -
If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.
-- Alice Walker -
There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.
-- Alvin Dark -
The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many shadows that the day creates more illusion than all the veiled truth of the night.
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -
The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM.
-- Amit Ray -
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
-- Amy Lowell -
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.
-- Amy Lowell -
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?
-- Amy Lowell -
To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.
-- Amy Lowell -
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.
-- Amy Neftzger -
We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
-- Anais Nin -
The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
-- Anaxagoras -
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
-- Anaxagoras -
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
-- Anaxagoras -
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 -
A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.
-- Andrea Gibson -
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 -
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 -
...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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
...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 -
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 -
'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 -
There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
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 -
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 -
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
-- Anton Chekhov -
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 -
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 -
Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
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 -
. . . 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
