Moon Quotes - Page 13

History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

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.

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets The moon sets But they are not gone.

Could you help me catch the moon?” “I might be able to give you some advice,” the old man said reluctantly. “But first you should think this over, boy. When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you’ll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquillity; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists!

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean.

They danced by the light of the moon.

There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.

It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the owl call to-whoo! Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too; Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb, So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.