Moon Quotes

2502 Moon quotes by 1474 unique authors

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police. — Langston Hughes
We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do. — Isaac Asimov
The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole… — Henry Beston
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping. — Robert Breault
But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon, were… — Diodorus Siculus
In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls the tides of… — Layne Redmond
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, --… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I would still like to go to the moon before I die. — Richard E. Grant
An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things… — Logan Pearsall Smith
Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey… — James Joyce
Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that. — Allen Ginsberg
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human… — Adrienne Rich
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of… — Lewis Mumford
In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing. — Jimmy Fallon
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… — Bernard Malamud
The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon. — George du Maurier
Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but… — Dogen
I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and… — Les Dawson
Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours… — Tom Harpur
Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or… — Meghan O'Rourke
In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics,… — Sun Tzu
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.… — Barack Obama
The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance. — Alan Parsons

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