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Moon Quotes

“Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens and gave me a sensation of pleasure. I started up and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees. I gazed with a kind of wonder. It moved slowly, but it enlightened my path; and I again went out in search of berries.”

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 11. After it is created, one of the first experiences the monster has is seeing the moon in the sky, enjoying its beauty and foraging for food with its light.

The nation that sent a man to the moon and defeated German and Soviet oppression will not be content to take second place to the imperialists in Beijing.

– Josh Hawley

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

– H. L. Mencken

I lost the ball in the moon.

– Hank Sauer

There is a shop close to where I live, outside which, on certain nights of the month – I’ve no idea if the transit of the moon determines precisely when – fans of designer skateboards queue from early evening in order – well in order, I presume – to be among the first to jump on a skateboard when the shop opens in the morning.

– Howard Jacobson

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman.

– William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3.

In September, I left the show. We were going through discussions and negotiations, and I had been on the show for about 11 years, and there were some things that I was asking for that I didn’t feel were the moon or the stars.

– Hunter Tylo

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

– Hal Borland

It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There’s no reason they couldn’t likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and other calamities, natural and manmade.

– Henry Petroski

I was watching a black and white television in Cairo, MI., at my grandparents’ house, and I watched Neil Armstrong step on the moon. At that point, it set the bit for me to be an astronaut, and it was kind of like a dream, but it really wasn’t reality.

– Gregory H. Johnson

I am not a person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.

– Gertrude Ederle

Supplying fuel for a Mars expedition from the lunar surface is often suggested, but it’s hard to make it pay off – Moon bases are expensive, and just buying more rockets to launch fuel from Earth is relatively cheap.

– Henry Spencer

Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.

– Goodman Ace

The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it’s still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.

– Henry Spencer

I’ve been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don’t know on the surface of the moon or something.

– Hank Azaria

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

– Georges Simenon

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

– Henry David Thoreau

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times… and safely home again.

– Gordon Sinclair

The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.

– Jim Lovell

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

– Jules Verne

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.

– Jane Campion

We didn’t slow down, unlike the others, when we got to the moon because we needed its gravity to get back, so we hold the altitude record. I never even thought about it. Records are only made to be broken.

– Jim Lovell

I’m working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.

– James Turrell

I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren’t that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.

– Jim Lovell

If you’re going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What’s the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission.

– Jim Lovell

Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.

– John Shelby Spong

Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It’s like going to the moon.

– Jon Krakauer

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

– John Fogerty

I didn’t go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

– Jim Lovell

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