“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.” YearsFirstsDifferentMomentsLightLastsWinningHoursReligiousDarknessSunImagineEventsMoonWorshipSpringDrawsTraditionFollowingFixedDramaticSundayCosmicRootedEasterParallelsFull MoonReligious TraditionsEquinoxSun God Author:Tom Harpur
“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.” FirstsEyeMemoriesGriefDogTearsMoonNotesWaveSunlightSleepersJinglesDog FoodSaboteurs Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.” FirstsLooksAbleEarthHumanitySpaceViewsPlanetsMoonFirst TimeProgramOur PlanetSpaceshipsAfarSpace ProgramFallouts Author:Theodore Hesburgh
“I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.” FirstsScienceSunFivePlanetsMoonSevenRoundsSmallestMercurySaturnRevolving Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“MEN WALK ON THE MOON. To me, this speaks of a time when America wasn't just about the almighty buck. The Russians had put up Sputnik, and the U.S. would not be outdone. I admire that about the American spirit. There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.” MenFirstsAmericaSpiritSpeakWalksMoonAdmireSpotsAlmightyBucksAmerican SpiritSputnik Author:Nathan Fillion
“Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get divorced on the Moon.” WantFirstsWellsMoonDivorcedColonyNewts Author:David Letterman
“We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets or distant space cities, they will look back at our achievement with wonder at our courage and audacity and with appreciation at our accomplishments, which assured the future in which they live.” FirstsLooksSpaceCitiesWonderGenerationsPlanetsWalkingLuckyMoonAchievementAppreciationBrokeAccomplishmentAssuredDescendantsStar GazingAudacity Author:Walter Cronkite
“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.” IfsFirstsMatterDreamCareSchoolTogetherEvilStarsBitsWhitePerfectBehindsSunTroubleInfluenceFineFitMoonSpringHumorousMachinesGreenSavedAtomsGearsGloomIndustriousSpatsVatAntimatter Book:The Cyberiad Source: The Cyberiad
“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.” FirstsWaterLordCarMoonBirdFlyingTunesAdamPeterRollingHarvestCarolsPipersHarvest Moon Author:Eleanor Farjeon
“This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” MenFirstsMotivationalSpaceStepsHistoryMankindPositiveMoonHistoricalGiantsExplorationLeapOne ManFirst StepsHistoricWorld HistoryApolloAstronautSpace ExplorationLandingNasaDesolationAntithesisSmall StepsSmall ManMoon LandingMisquotingSmall WordsWritten HistoryAnagramsMan In The MoonWalking On The MoonAudio Recording Author:Neil Armstrong