Moon Quotes

• They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

  

  Bobby Sands
  • People
  • Heart
  • Freedom

• We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • World
  • Today
  • Lasts

• England become a feeble-lighted Moon of America…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • America
  • Moon

• 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
  • God
  • Bad
  • Leader

• If the attractive virtue of the moon extends as far as the earth, it follows with greater reason that the attractive virtue of the earth extends as far as the moon and much farther; and, in short, nothing which consists of earthly substance anyhow constituted although thrown up to any height, can ever escape the powerful operation of this attractive virtue.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Work
  • Education
  • Support

• We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there...

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • God
  • Universe

• Just speaking for myself, I think the return of people to the Moon has a lot to offer for understanding the formation and evolution of terrestrial worlds; so would the exploration of near-Earth asteroids by people.

  

  Alan Stern
  • People
  • Earth
  • Understanding

• I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question "Why?"

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Why
  • Interesting

• May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Moon
  • Wind
  • Sails

• I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating. This huge thing. And it was so secretive I couldn't even tell BBC reception where I was going, had to pretend it was for something called Panic Moon, which is an anagram of companion.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Moon

• Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Up
  • Moon

• Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there was a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions-exactly which way to go and what to do to get there; it depended on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Moon

• Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Earth
  • Shadow
  • Circle

• The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.'

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • Game
  • Thanks
  • Anime

• I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Dream
  • Forever
  • Summer

• At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

  

  Daniel Hope
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Age

• The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man, and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Language
  • Stars

• As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Space
  • Moon

• We did 'Erin Brockovich', we did 'Man on the Moon', we did 'Living Out Loud', but now I'm going to keep going.

  

  Danny DeVito
  • Moon

• Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Eyes

• The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Novel
  • Ultimate
  • Print

• The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

  

  David Mallet
  • Moon
  • Owl

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