T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The moon is profound except when we land on it.”
Source: Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.”
“The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.”
“The moon is shining brighter tonight, touching the entire village with its soft silver light; the houses are half awake and the sky is half asleep, with its sparkling yellowish stars scattered and spread across it, like a large bright night cloak. Little and fragile plants’ silhouettes are beautifully staining the skyline and dancing to the silent sound of the winter breeze.”
Source: The Beauty of Every Day
“The moon is sinking in the west,
the moon is sinking.
With all my heart of you I'm thinking -
and you not knowing!
A tender bush; who cares to tend it?
From my fallen leaves
the pains of love are growing. . .”
Source: Taipei People
“The Moon is slipping from our grasp at a rate of about 1.5 inches a year. In another two billion years it will have receded so far that it won’t keep us steady and we will have to come up with some other solution, but in the meantime you should think of it as much more than just a pleasant feature in the night sky.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.”
“The moon is such a planet, I can’t even stand it. What else is it if it’s not a planet?”
“The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.”
“The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.”
“The Moon is the light of the night.”
“The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.”
“The moon is the same but the observers are different.”
“The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image.”
Source: I Love You Too
“The moon is very rugged.”
“The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.”
“The moon just crapped the bed.”
“The moon laughs, I find my pen,
The insanity stirs; it begins again.
The voices are screaming, they own the night.
I have to act, I have to write.
Blood in the ink, it sings like a curse,
Each word a wound, each line gets worse.”
“The moon lays a hand on my forehead.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“The moon lights the freckles sprinkled on her cheeks and nose like little blossoms in a field of snow.”
Source: Finding Us Again
“The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.”
“The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.”
“The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light.”
Source: Gilead
“The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.”
Source: Gilead: A Novel
“The moon must be willing to illuminate a world that it doesn’t live in, with a light that it didn’t create, from a place that no one wants to visit.”
“The moon must be willing to illuminate a world that it doesn’t live in, with a light that it didn’t create, from a place that no one wants to visit. Therefore, to change life on earth maybe we need to be more like the moon.”
“The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.”
Source: Egypt
“The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“The moon of the night, the sea in swell, the poetry of madness, almost every midnight whisper draws me to you.”
“The moon only dares compete with the stars when the sun is in its corner.”
“The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.”
Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)
“The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.”
“The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.”
“the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy”
“The Moon reminds us to reflect, and when we reflext the light of others, it helps us shine in our own way”
“The moon repeated her phases on the exact same solar calendar day once every nineteen years.
And she had just turned nineteen! So nineteen years ago, at this time, the moon would have been new.
She would have been just born, and her magic would have been deadly. So that explained the nurse.
But the other times?
She couldn't remember. All she could clearly think of was that once when she was very, very upset about killing a game hen- more than usual- she had gone to weep and look out the window for hours. The sky was as black as her mind and spirit felt, and the usually comforting stars were pinprick harsh, untwinkling. Each was a stab into her heart. There was no moon.”
Source: What Once Was Mine
“The moon rested right above the mountains, a place I call home.”
Source: Right-Hearted: Finding What's Right With a Wrong-Sided Heart
“The moon, right now, is even bigger than my love for it.”
“The moon rose above the canopy and a dreamy mist swirled around our knees as we danced, fingers entwined and hearts in sync with the universe; just a prince and his princess, a boy and a girl, learning to love in a beautiful world.”
Source: Entwined
“The moon rose, and the moon set;
And the stars rushed up and whirled and set;
And again they swarmed, after a shaft of sunlight;
And the dark blue dusk closed above him, like an ocean of regret.”
Source: The Charnel Rose Senlin a Biography and Other Poems - Scholar's Choice Edition
“The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.”
“The Moon's magnetic gravitational power, combined with the movement of the Earth influences the flow of sap in trees and plants and of body fluids, including the rhythm of the blood, the female menstrual cycle and gestation cycles, and the brain itself.”
Source: Earth Medicine: Revealing Hidden Teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel
“The moon's soft glow was such a beautiful gift to the night that Pinchy felt compelled to honor it. Though none of his species have ever sung, he raised his small mouth to the sky and summoned a rasping warble. It wasn't lovely or on key, but he knew in his heart that the moon had heard and accepted his song. - From "Extremities" in Bedtime Stories for Monsters”
Source: Malice House
“The moon’s weird though, right? It’s there, and there, and then suddenly it’s not. And it seems to be pretty far up. Is it watching us? If not, what is it watching instead? Is there something more interesting than us? Hey, watch us moon! We may not always be the best show in the universe, but we try.”
“The Moon said my spine was out of order
yet everything was in its place
The Moon said a poet must drift sometimes”
“The moon scatters the light of heaven when dense is the night.. What wisdom makes a pearl from the dark sky, for such a gem is born from a womb of gloom!”
“The moon seemed to veil herself before the bold looks of Satan. The night was cold. All the doors were closed, all the windows darkened. and the streets deserted. From their appearance, one would have imagined that, for a long time past no foot had traversed those silent streets. Everything around us bore a death-like aspect. It seemed as if, when day came, no one would open their doors; that no head, of woman or of child, would look out of those dark, dull windows; that no step would break the silence which fell, like a pall, upon all around. I seemed to be walking in a city which had been buried some ages. In truth, the town seemed to have been depopulated, and the cemetery to have grown full.
Still we went forward, without hearing a murmur, or meeting even with a shadow. The street stretched for a long way across this fearful city of silence and repose. At last we reached my house.
'You remember it?' said the fiend.
'Yes,' replied I, sullenly, 'let us enter.'
'First,' said he, 'we must open the door. It is I, by the way, who invented the science of opening doors without breaking them in. In fact, I have a second key to all doors and gates - with one exception - that of Paradise!”
“The moon seems unaware
of night's dark hitting
on the damp warm rain
misguiding owl's spitting
A thunder light of love
raising hearts beating
while weather learns more
from rain lovers meeting”
“The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.”
“The moon shines for you.”