Moon Quotes - Page 10

• You promised the moon, but I prefer Uranus.

  Red Peters

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• As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.

  David Grinspoon

  Self, Long, Extinction

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• I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Cheerful, Machines, Earth

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• If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

  Freeman Dyson

  Moving, Thinking, Want

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• It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

  Alan Bean

  Land, Way, Excited

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• Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.

  Lady Gregory

  Stars, Fall, Leader

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.612, eBookIt.com

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• One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.

  Gene Cernan

  Talking, Important, Earth

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• What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their family's garden, cycle home in the dark with the stars and moon illuminating their route, walk down through the woods to the river, lie on their backs on hot July days in the long grass, or watch cockleburs, lit by morning sun, like bumblees quivering on harp wires? What then?

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Morning, Stars

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Having day dreams, tonguing you down with, uh, vanilla ice cream. Kissing on your thigh in the moon light, searching your body with my tongue girl all night.

  LL Cool J

  Girl, Dream, Kissing

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• What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Men, Names

  Song: A Few Moments With Brother A. West, Album: The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, 1991

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• When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

  Ben E. King

  Friendship, Dark, Night

  "Song: "Stand By Me" ("Don't Play That Song!")". 1962.

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• Spring One. Spring One. I am Eagle. I am Eagle. I can hear you very well. I feel excellent. My feeling is excellent.

  Gherman Titov

  Eagles, Star Gazing, Walking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". Message from Vostok II, www.imdb.com. August 1961.

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• If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Two, Space

  "Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns -- Again", www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2010.

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• The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

  Elon Musk

  Important, Earth, Star Gazing

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• You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.

  Lisa Loeb

  Friendship, Stars, Shine Bright

  Song: Alone, Album: Tails

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• People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon and drizzle.

  Wendy Harmer

  Heart, Airports, People

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• When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.

  Gene Cernan

  Order, Curves, Horizon

  "In the Shadow of the Moon", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.

  Gene Cernan

  Half, Flip, Pounds

  "In the Shadow of the Moon", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

  Gene Cernan

  Color, Orange, Earth

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• We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

  Gene Cernan

  Darkness, Shadow, Daylight

  "In the Shadow of the Moon", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.

  Bart Gordon

  Goal, Chinese, Wake Up

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• Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

  Emily Browning

  Home, Dvds, Cartoon

  "Carla Gugino, Emily Browning, And Abbie Cornish Talk Sucker Punch". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. March 28, 2011.

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• In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

  Dennis DeYoung

  Reality, Haste, Desert

  Song: Desert Moon

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• She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.

  Bob Dylan

  Voice, Compliment

  Song: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Family, Night, Fire

  Song: Voodoo Chile, Album: Electric Ladyland

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