Moon Quotes
2502 Moon quotes by 1474 unique authors
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How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has…
— Orison Swett Marden
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To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful... It does not take much strength to lift a hair, it does…
— Sun Tzu
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For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.
— Richard M. Nixon
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America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.
— Dick Gregory
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
— B.F. Skinner
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We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
— Charles de Gaulle
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The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys…
— Pliny the Elder
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The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.
— Jim Lovell
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Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.
— Unknown Author
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I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100…
— Luis von Ahn
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For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom…
— Richard Baker
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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
— John Milton
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their…
— John Milton
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Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the…
— Takafumi Horie
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All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved in stone. The fountain sang…
— Sara Teasdale
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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,…
— Amy Lowell
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So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in…
— Alan Watts
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A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and…
— Kenneth Rexroth
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The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.
— Robert Grudin
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Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best…
— Wumen Huikai
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
— William Butler Yeats
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the…
— Pablo Neruda
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