Moon Quotes - Page 22

• The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Girl, Dream, Shining

  Leonid Andreyev (2005). “The Crushed Flower and Other Stories”, p.29, 1st World Publishing

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• The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.

  Charles Duke

  Broken, Scary, Together

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• Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars. I'm more on the side that says we should go back to the Moon. I think there's a lot we can utilise the Moon for scientifically.

  Charles Duke

  Thinking, Needs, Mars

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• I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a chance to develop and mature some systems; long duration, deep space stuff; and you're close enough to get some help, via radio from Earth.

  Charles Duke

  Thinking, Space, Long

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• In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible... remains in every way an up-to-date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the Moon also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God.

  Wernher von Braun

  Bible, Christian, Book

  "Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts & Funny Sayings". Book by Bob Phillips, 1993.

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• The absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing like a Mass Effect guy hanging out with a Sailor Moon, and they're just having a great time. Nerds, we love what we love with a passion and sometimes it's an angry passion, and to see that all sort of bleed out and everybody just connect.

  Joss Whedon

  Passion, Guy, Nerd

  Source: collider.com

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• [Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Honesty, Believe, Character

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• Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Eye, Vision

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• The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Poetry, Tides

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.289, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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• Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast
  each with a splendor
  which man in all his vileness cannot
  set aside; each with an excellence!

  Marianne Moore

  Night, Men, Excellence

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.118, Penguin

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• Because of something told under the famished horn
  Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day,
  To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay,
  Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Women

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.33, Library of Alexandria

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• For wisdom is the property of the dead,
  A something incompatible with life; and power,
  Like everything that has the stain of blood,
  A property of the living; but no stain
  Can come upon the visage of the moon
  When it has looked in glory from a cloud.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Wisdom, Clouds

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• I have nothing but the embittered sun;
  Banished heroic mother moon and vanished,
  And now that I have come to fifty years
  I must endure the timid sun.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Reality, Years

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.109, Library of Alexandria

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• Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
  For there the mystical brotherhood
  Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
  And river and stream work out their will.

  William Butler Yeats

  Nature, Heart, Rivers

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• on the instant clamorous eaves,
  A climbing moon upon an empty sky,
  And all that lamentation of the leaves,
  Could but compose man's image and his cry.

  William Butler Yeats

  Nature, Men, Sky

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Earth would soon
  Be uninhabitable as the moon.
  What for that matter had it ever been?
  Who advised man to come and live therein?

  Robert Frost

  Men, Earth, Matter

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• The Moon for all her light and grace
  Has never learned to know her place.

  Robert Frost

  Light, Grace, Knows

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.

  George Orwell

  Blow, Echoes, Sappers

  George Orwell (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

  Carl Sandburg

  Frogs, Golden, Lost

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whenever the moon and stars are set,
  Whenever the wind is high,
  All night long in the dark and wet,
  A man goes riding by.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Stars, Dark, Night

  'A Child's Garden of Verses' (1885) 'Windy Nights'

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• Soldier, there is a war between the mind
  And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
  For that the poet is always in the sun,
  Patches the moon together in his room
  To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
  Up down. It is a war that never ends.

  Wallace Stevens

  War, Night, Sky

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.302, Vintage

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• After a lustre of the moon, we say
  We have not the need of any paradise,
  We have not the need of any seducing hymn.

  Wallace Stevens

  Hymns, Needs, Paradise

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.290, Vintage

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• This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out
  Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon
  To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.

  Wallace Stevens

  World, Dirt, Dove

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.119, Vintage

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• It is the sun that shares our works.
  The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sea, Sun, Share

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.168, Vintage

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• We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

  Garrison Keillor

  Husband, Father, Caring

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