--- title: "8 Moon Men Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 8 Moon Men quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Moon Men sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e3/kurt-vonnegut-41_adventure_nobody-talked-much-as-the-expedition-cro_188240.jpg" --- > [“Nobody talked much as the expedition crossed the moon. There was nothing appropriate to say. One thing was clear: Absolutely everybody in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/nobody-talked-much-as-the-expedition-crossed-the-moon-there-was/) [Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e3/kurt-vonnegut-41_adventure_nobody-talked-much-as-the-expedition-cro_188240.jpg) > [In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-schweitzer/in-the-hopes-of-reaching-the-moon-men-fail-to-see-the-flowers-that/) [Albert Schweitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-schweitzer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86b/albert-schweitzer-701_appreciation_in-the-hopes-of-reaching-the-moon-men-fa_220436.jpg) > [“What good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battleground and theatre…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells-2/what-good-would-the-moon-be-to-men-even-of-their-own-planet-what-have/) [H.G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faa/h-g-wells-2-1299_time_what-good-would-the-moon-be-to-men-even_1089555.jpg) > [“Today everything is so complex as to be incomprehensible. What sense does it make for men to walk on the moon while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-d-alinsky/today-everything-is-so-complex-as-to-be-incomprehensible-what-sense/) [Saul D. Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-d-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95a/saul-d-alinsky-37981_freedom_today-everything-is-so-complex-as-to-be_1532232.jpg) > [“To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/to-accomplish-his-object-ahab-must-use-tools-and-of-all-tools-used-in/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/herman-melville-162_quote_to-accomplish-his-object-ahab-must-use-t_1716852.jpg) > [The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/the-fortune-of-us-that-are-the-moon-s-men-doth-ebb-and-flow-like-the/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/703/william-shakespeare-4_ebb-and-flow_the-fortune-of-us-that-are-the-moon-s-me_2266077.jpg) > [“As time went by, it mattered less and less that in 1969 a rocket went from Florida to the moon and men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/as-time-went-by-it-mattered-less-and-less-that-in-1969-a-rocket-went/) [Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ace/ann-marie-macdonald-10978_space_as-time-went-by-it-mattered-less-and-les_2588190.png) > [“Sooner or later it must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then...Governments and powers will struggle to get hither,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells-2/sooner-or-later-it-must-come-out-even-if-other-men-rediscover-it-and/) [H.G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb8/h-g-wells-2-1299_moon_sooner-or-later-it-must-come-out-even-if_3093247.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moon-men/#itemlist", "name": "Moon Men Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Nobody talked much as the expedition crossed the moon. There was nothing appropriate to say. One thing was clear: Absolutely everybody in the city was supposed to be dead, regardless of what they were, and that anybody that moved in it represented a flaw in the design. 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