Moon Quotes - Page 17

• The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

  Anaxagoras

  Brightness, Sun

  Fragment in Plutarch De facie in or be lunae, 929b.

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• The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.

  Elinor Wylie

  Wings, Imagination, Bird

  Elinor Wylie, “The Falcon”

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• When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you're left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.

  Harold Pinter

  Fall, Night, Race

  Harold Pinter (1993). “Party Time ; And, The New World Order: Two Plays”, p.27, Grove Press

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• Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon

  Cat Stevens

  Light, Sky, World

  Song: Sun C 79, Album: Buddha and the Chocolate Box, 1974

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• I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in

  Cole Porter

  Looks, Want, West

  "Don't Fence Me In" (song) (1944)

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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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• All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.

  Harry Chapin

  Circles, Sunrise, Nighttime

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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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• Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Heart, Light, Meditation

  "Japan, the Beautiful and Myself". Yasunari Kawabata's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 12, 1968.

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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 started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone.

  Conor Oberst

  Long, Gone, Blink

  "Song: "The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat" ("A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997")". January 1998.

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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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• Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.

  Brock Yates

  Running, New York, Reality

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• Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Needs, World, Sun

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• We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Somewhere Else, Numbers, Mars

  "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space". Book by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976.

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• If the character has the motivation to dance round trees, then I will dance round trees. If the motivation is strong enough, then I'll fly to the moon.

  Rahul Bose

  Strong, Motivation, Character

  "'If the Motivation Is Strong Enough, I'll Fly to the Moon'". Interview with Suparn Verma, www.rediff.com. April 04, 1997.

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• Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we know that the Sun is ruler and King. We see that the Moon in her shape and her proximity rivals the Sun with her grandeur, which is apparent to ordinary men, yet the face, or a semi-sphere of the Moon, always reflects the light of the Sun.

  John Dee

  Kings, Men, Circles

  John Dee (2000). “The Hieroglyphic Monad”, p.10, Weiser Books

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• The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Darkness, Cold, Chapel

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.28, Knopf

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• But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.

  Mark Tobey

  Self, Creating, Orange

  "Reminiscence and Reverie" by Mark Tobey, Magazine of Art, 44, pp. 228, 231, October 1951.

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• I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.

  William Baziotes

  Beautiful, Real, Men

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• Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human when we love, forgive and work toward peace. To be violent, vengeful or selfish is to be un-human!

  Daniel Horan

  Selfish, Flower, Fire

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• Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it was bright, and full of potential, and now it is dark and hopeless and bleak. I should not make the mistake of thinking that the moon and the stars represent slim glimmers of hope, or evidence that there is light on the other side. Even if there is light somewhere I will never walk in it again.

  John S. Hall

  Stars, Mistake, Dark

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• Thou Moon! Sun of the Night, Sister mystic of the Day; Look down, pause in thy flight! Calm me with thy aural ray, Enchanting souls to silver sleep. Look down from out thy airy keep, My fevered senses hypnotize; Shut out the World, whereto Mind flies-- Ambitious Mind, with travail sore; Its fibre rest, its calm restore.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Sleep, Night, Soul

  William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”

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• The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

  Roberto Bolano

  Night, Air, Fats

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• Come with me while the moon is on the sea The night is young and so are we Dreams come true in Blue Hawaii And mine could all come true This magic night of nights with you

  Leo Robin

  Dream, Night, Sea

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