Moons Quotes

76 quotes by 70 authors

By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew… — Buzz Aldrin
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way. — Joni Mitchell
Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I… — Samuel R. Delany
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
Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there.… — Diana Abu-Jaber
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients. — Samuel Johnson
Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world… — Thomas Merton
Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies — Robert W. Chambers
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light. — Franz Grillparzer
The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven't even talked about the moons. And… — Seth Shostak
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire… — Joseph Epstein
What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or… — Steven Pinker
The moon is a satellite that was constructed. It was built and anchored outside Earth's atmosphere as a mediating and monitoring device, a supercomputer or… — Barbara Marciniak
Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane,… — Phil Plait
We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism and… — Daniel Goldin
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To… — Frank Herbert
Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths, the suns, the… — Swami Vivekananda
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… — Alan Stern

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