Moon Quotes
2502 Moon quotes by 1474 unique authors
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Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner…
— Robert Hunter
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A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.
— Mo Yan
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I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose…
— Marge Piercy
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My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers…
— William Saroyan
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As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the…
— Ishmael Beah
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When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You…
— Nhat Hanh
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Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write. So hard to…
— Ellen Gilchrist
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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…
— Cesar Aira
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The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.
— Confucius
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to…
— Larry Niven
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The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.
— Doug Rader
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Keith Moon is not interested in Jazz and won't ever be a Jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.
— Pete Townshend
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Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched…
— Patrick Ness
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Poetry is the dark side of the moon,
— Charles Wright
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I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.
— Christa McAuliffe
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I could see Armstrong bouncing on the moon
— Alexey Leonov
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You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
— Leonard Woolf
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Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.
— Edward Witten
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Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom…
— Galileo Galilei
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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…
— Albertus Magnus
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... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good…
— William Herschel
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Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.
— Robin Williams
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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
— Oscar Wilde
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