Moon Quotes - Page 14

• When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.

  Nostradamus

  Years, Sun, Twenties

  Nostradamus (2013). “The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Grateful, White

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 09, 2012

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• 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.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Prayer, Perfect, Healthy

  Message on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, October, 1941.

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• 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.

  Thomas Malthus

  Distance, Squares, Ratios

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.111, eKitap Projesi

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• And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

  Joanna Newsom

  Heart

  Song: Bridges and Balloons, Album: The Milk-Eyed Mender, 2004

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• 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.

  Alan Shepard

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Shepard Still Shoots for Moon". The Denver Post, p. 1D, September 29, 1992+.

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• I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.

  Alan Shepard

  Pasadena, Knows, I Can

  "Astronaut Late to Signing". Sun-Sentinel, p. 2A, June 19, 1995.

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• A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!

  James Elroy Flecker

  Stars, Mirrors, Sea

  'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'A Ship, an Isle, and a Sickle Moon'

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• How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness.

  Ivan Panin

  Stars, Adversity, Eye

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• It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

  John Seely Brown

  Data, Scratches, Lasts

  John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid (2017). “The Social Life of Information: Updated, with a New Preface”, p.115, Harvard Business Review Press

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• We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium of new information leading from primal superstition to final exactitude. We know that the sun is hub of our little corner of the universe, and that ties of genealogy connect all living things on our planet, because these theories assemble and explain so much otherwise disparate and unrelated information not because Galileo trained his telescope on the moons of Jupiter or because Darwin took a ride on a Galápagos tortoise.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Views, Ties, Mind

  "Eight Little Piggies". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "A Foot Soldier for Evolution", p. 441, 1993.

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• I saw this film Moon, it's directed by Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son. Sam Rockwell plays this astronaut that is stuck in a space station on the moon. You just have to see it. It's easy to do something really cheesy with sci-fi, and to do something that's already been done, but I think the story was something I hadn't heard before, so it was really great.

  Kelcey Ayer

  Son, Thinking, Cheesy

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• The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Queens, White, Mad

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• I would still like to go to the moon before I die.

  Richard E. Grant

  Stills, Dies, Before I Die

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• In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Potholes, Traffic

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• Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

  Paul Davies

  Thinking, People, Imagination

  "Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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• I've always wanted to be part of something that would radically change the world. . . . People forget the power of inspiration. All of humanity went to the moon with the Apollo missions. The issue was cost. There was no chance to build a base and create frequent flights. That's the problem I would like to solve.

  Elon Musk

  Inspiration, Issues, People

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• One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Air, Balls

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.724, Best Books on

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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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• 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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• Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die.

  Robert Zubrin

  Mistake, Race, Tree

  Robert Zubrin (1999). “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization”, Tarcher

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• Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth. Will this happen before our technological civilization disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it forever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos.

  Martin Rees

  Civilization, Space, Self

  "Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning". Book by Martin Rees, 2003.

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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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• 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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• 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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