Moon Quotes - Page 9

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.

Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.

You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight?

The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.

When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.

Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.

No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.

I have been known on occasion to howl at the moon.

Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.

Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven't even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.

And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking.

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.

You have to be able to appreciate these things. How many people can say it was a full moon last night and appreciate it?

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest.