Moon Quotes - page 3

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely! View quote
Juan Ramón Jiménez
The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Go then! Then go to the moon - you selfish dreamer! View quote
Tennessee Williams
The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding - Riding - riding - The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door. View quote
Alfred Noyes
The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me. View quote
Joan Miró
Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom ‘Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon. View quote
Cat Stevens
When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk. (Chinua Achebe)
During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight - a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
I was like a lost moon - my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation - that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the ‘Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking. View quote
Neil Armstrong
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of wind Depth of sea Stability of earth Firmness of rock. View quote
Saint Patrick
The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule. View quote
Robert Jordan
Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon. View quote
David Brewster
Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it. (Fernando Pessoa)
I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon. View quote
Alan Shepard
There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back. View quote
Alan Shepard
I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth. View quote
Alan Shepard
I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena. View quote
Alan Shepard