Moon Quotes - Page 16

• Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.

  Augustus William Hare

  Light, Two, Shining

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.301

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• The first time I ever saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes and the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and empty sky, my love.

  Ewan MacColl

  Romantic, Stars, Eye

  "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (song) (1962)

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• Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody who says the problem you're trying to solve simply doesn't exist. When President Kennedy set us on a course for the moon, there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn't be worth it; it was going to be too expensive, it was going to be too hard, it would take too long. But nobody ignored the science. I don't remember anybody saying that the moon wasn't there or that it was made of cheese.

  Barack Obama

  Unique, Numbers, Long

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• I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon.

  Smokey Robinson

  Castles, Towers, Dense

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• Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?

  Bruce Springsteen

  Baby, Dust, Blood

  Song: The Fuse, Album: The Rising

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• Women and men(both little and small)
  cared for anyone not at all
  they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same
  sun moon stars rain

  e. e. cummings

  Stars, Rain, Men

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Go to the moon, that's my dream.

  Steve Jurvetson

  Dream

  "Here's Why Investor Steve Jurvetson Saved Elon Musk's Space Dreams" by Julie Bort, www.businessinsider.com. September 14, 2012.

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• With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure.

  Wu Cheng'en

  Passion, Destiny, Harmony

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• Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun.

  Ken Kutaragi

  Microsoft, Sun, Sony

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• Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.

  Ben Parr

  Space, Orbit, World

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• Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he [God] has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.

  Martin Luther

  Stars, Wine, Beer

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• The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Lonely, Stars, Night

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

  Richard Branson

  Teenager, Space, One Day

  "CEO Interview: Richard Branson on space travel". Interview with Susan Montoya Bryan, newsok.com. November 23, 2010.

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• There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Car, Water, Bird

  1958 Then There Were Three,'Boys' Names'.

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• The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Our World, Light, Bird

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• The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school ... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.

  Jean Sylvain Bailly

  Stars, School, Years

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• The moon is made of a green cheese.

  John Heywood

  Green, Cheese, Made

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.412

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• If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.

  Johannes Kepler

  Sea, Water, Body

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.

  Johannes Kepler

  Ocean, Water, Zenith

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!

  George Arnold

  Growing Up, Simple, Night

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.30

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• We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life.

  Jack Gilbert

  Wind, Whispering, Flesh

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• I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?

  Sara Teasdale

  Dark, Light, Broken

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We'll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We'll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We'll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.

  Angelina Jolie

  Girl, Country, Book

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• The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

  Leonard Cohen

  Two, Perfect, Half

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.226, McClelland & Stewart

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• I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.

  Fred Hoyle

  Believe, Financial, Astronomy

  "Galaxies, Nuclei, and Quasars". Book by Fred Hoyle, 1965.

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