Home / Topics / Moon Quotes

Moon Quotes

Browse 3549 quotes about Moon.

Moon Quotes

“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.”

Movement Moon Libertarian Lunch Harsh Mistress Slogans Free Lunch

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!”

Night Stars Morning Sun Progress Journey Moon All Things Western Rounds East Bars Afternoon Comes And Goes Noon

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.”

Stills America Sun Moon Beloved Sand Toasts

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!”

World Night Air Moon Harmony Notes Delight Rings Golden Tunes Bells Floats Liquid Dove Turtles Mellow Wedding Bells Turtle Doves

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!”

Shows Strange Cold Moon Range Silver Shade Honey Temper Sunny Eccentric Fickle

Book:Prose and verse

Source: Prose and verse

“Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?”

Art Light Mother Moon Snow Secure Silver Bows Dread Hunters Summit Cloudy Huntress Alpine

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

“He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.”

Views Moon Pale Moonlight

Author:William Hazlitt

“I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.”

Has Beens Made Facts Moon Astronaut Armstrong

Author:Arthur Goldberg

“Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.”

Light Stars Virtue Moon Judgment Mercy Seats

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.”

Giving Answers Walks Sea Painting Moon Remains Investigation Elude

Book:Picasso and his art

Source: Picasso and his art

“These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.”

Men Years Heart Stills Hands Light Eye Heaven Stars Views Sun Clear Seeing Bears Moon Sight Arguing Spots Idle Blindness Steers Bereft Orbs These Eyes

Book:I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

Source: I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

“Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.”

Giving Stills Light Dying Moon Clouds Flying Dawn Worn Quills Width Giving Light

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions.”

World Needs Looks Home Action Earth Together Vision Moon Missions Lofty Together We Can

Author:William McDonough

“Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.”

World War Earth Night Stars Lines Darkness Sun Sea Cold Moon Red Ghost Pale Haunting Red Sea

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.”

Way Writing Fantasy Painting Moon Take Me

Author:Paul Gauguin

“In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.”

Sleep Silence Wonder Moon Apples Corridors Orchard

Author:John Drinkwater

“Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray.”

World Looks May Play Use Dream Lasts Found Stars Dangerous This World Moon Wings Delight Shade Leafs Moths Fly Away Dazzle

Book:Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems

Source: Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems

“The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.”

House Wind Moon South Clouds Blast Gale Chimneys Smitten

Author:Robert Bridges

“And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.”

Home Turns Grows Walks Moon Shadow Evening Foam Turn Me

Book:Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

“Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.”

Two Night Flower Moon Wine Rounds Lips Golden Cups Orange Bud Slender Swelling Waxing

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?”

May Sleep Moon Evening Autumn

Author:Dogen

“If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America`s gluttony on fossil fuel.”

Ifs World Should America Young Dies Moon Decades Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel Gluttony

Author:John F. Kerry

“Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away.”

Magic Sea Moon Hills Sunset Sail Enchantment Dip Over The Hill Turquoise Barges

Book:Kentucky Poems

Source: Kentucky Poems

“When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming.”

Should Moon Should Have Islands Rockets Deserted

Author:Bob Denver

“Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.”

God Sun Moon West East Setting Settings Rising Rays Womb Krishna Impart Sun Set Sun Setting

Author:A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.”

Ifs Done Jobs Can Do Lines Moon Noses Opponents Subtle Crossings Crossing The Line

Author:Ian Poulter

“We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.”

Knows Science Sides Knowledge Moon Ocean Bottom Back Side

Author:Roger Revelle

“Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.”

Stills Night Loses Loss Moon Tides Crescent

Book:The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.”

“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.”

Want Firsts Wells Moon Divorced Colony Newts

Author:David Letterman

“When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was, 'Wow! Jeez!' Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Wells Said Space Moon Immortal Wow Overwhelmed Eagles Apollo Speechless

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fathers. So it is in regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. It was made to give light to those who dwell upon it, and to other planets; and so will this earth when it is celestialized”

Thinking Giving Littles Made Light Earth Father Sun Planets Moon Regard Shining Ignorant Evening Vain Spheres

Author:Brigham Young

“I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon....But at least a forester worked in the woods and with the woods - and I loved the woods and everything about them....My Father's suggestion settled the question in favor of forestry.”

Men Father He Man Moon Woods Favors Meant To Be Conception Suggestions Man In The Moon

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“We all know the moon isn't made out of green cheese...but if it was made out of barbeque spare ribs would you eat it?”

Ifs Knows Made Moon Blue Green Cheese Spares Ribs Bbq Blue Cheese

Author:Will Ferrell

“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”

Soul Religion Religious Wonder Beauty Moon Worship Creator Admire My Soul Sunset Imperfect Metaphysics Beautiful Sunset

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California”

Heart Black White Moon Lonely Winter Forests California Solitary Northern California Winter Moon

Author:Joaquin Miller

“Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.”

Heaven Black Broken Wall Battle Thousand Moon Silent Midnight Purple Half Moon

Author:Joaquin Miller

“A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.”

Art Artist Moon Bird Notes South Rising Angle Midnight Resorts Sweetest Salute Chimneys Mocking Bird

Author:John James Audubon

“Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.”

Men Persons Action Science Water Genius Moon Independent Great Men Tides Occult Childishness Kepler

Author:Galileo Galilei

“I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.”

Ifs Inspirational Stills Ready Moon Take Me

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.”

Knows Men Fate Sacrifice Mankind He Man Moon Brave Recovery Apollo No Hope Brave Man Buzz Armstrong There Is Hope Rest In Peace

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.”

Feels Heart Pain Night Passion Break Humility Broken Proud Moon Thee

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“I'm not coming in . . . this is fun.”

Fun Walking Moon Star Gazing

Author:Edward Higgins White

“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.”

Firsts Looks Space Cities Wonder Generations Planets Walking Lucky Moon Achievement Appreciation Broke Accomplishment Assured Descendants Star Gazing Audacity

Author:Walter Cronkite

“The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.”

Ifs Light White Rocks Moon Snow Touched Boss Rays Brows Kindles Canyons Looking Down Domes Swelling

Book:STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.”

Light Sun Moon Rose Hills Gray December Noon Over The Hill

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!”

Night Stars White Watches Sun Moon Lilies

Book:The Poems

Source: The Poems

“The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond.”

Thinking Doe Reality Water Moon Ponds

Author:Yamaoka Tesshu

“The moon shines for you.”

Expression Moon Shining

Author:Lisa Loeb

“There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away”

Long Enough Expression Moon Asking Clouds

Author:Jeff Buckley