Moon Quotes
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The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight (Mysterious veil, of brightness made,) That's both her lustre and her shade), And in the lantern of the night, With shining horns hung out her light. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
On the road, the lonely road, Under the cold, white moon; Under the rugged trees he strode, Whistled and shifted his heavy load-- Whistled a foolish tune. (Quote by - William Wallace Harney)
He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon is green cheese. (Quote by - Sir Thomas More)
The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
When I finally had a book accepted for publication, I wasn't just over the moon, I think I was over the entire solar system! (Quote by - Jeremy Strong)
The devil's in the moon for mischief; they Who call'd her chaste, methinks, began too soon Their nomenclature; there is not a day, The longest, not the twenty-first of June, Sees half the business in a wicked way, On which three single hours of moonshine smile-- And then she looks so modest all the while! (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
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. (Quote by - Bob Denver)
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. (Quote by - Alfred Noyes)
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. (Quote by - Richard H Baker)
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
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. (Quote by - Jean Ingelow)
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Life isn't long enough for love and art. - The Moon and Sixpence (Quote by - W Somerset Maugham)
Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog? (Quote by - Robert Burton)
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! (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no; That would, as soon as e'er she shone straight, Whether 'twere day or night demonstrate; Tell what her d'ameter to an inch is, And prove that she's not made of green cheese. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
The sun had sunk and the summer skies Were dotted with specks of light That melted soon in the deep moon-rise That flowed over Groton Height. (Quote by - M'Donald Clarke)
I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories, lost like tears in the rain... Then he releases a dove and dies while sitting in a rain storm (Quote by - Rutger Hauer)
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. (Quote by - W Clement Stone)
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead. (Quote by - David Brower)
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? (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
Upon stepping foot on the moon, Buzz remarked to Houston, 'Beautiful, beautiful. Magnificent desolation.' (Quote by - Buzz Aldrin)
There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup. (Quote by - Robbie Savage)
There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run. (Quote by - Alvin Dark)
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones (Quote by - Keith Richards)
And hail their queen, fair regent of the night. (Quote by - Erasmus Darwin)
Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia (Quote by - Martial)
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. (Quote by - Madison Julius Cawein)
This has been the hardest title I have won and Mark is the hardest finalist, this is the guy for the future. I am over the moon to win it again. (Quote by - Phil Taylor)
As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
It was a goal that came from the moon - from the Anfield stands. (Quote by - Jose Mourinho)
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night. (Quote by - John Gay)
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. (Quote by - Jean Ingelow)
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty. (Quote by - Lyndon Johnson)
When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head, When all is mute the Moorish flute, And nodding guards watch wearily, On, then let me, From prison free, March out by moonlight cheerily. (Quote by - George Colman)
The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
And, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth. (Quote by - Sir Martin Rees)
I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon. (Quote by - Amy Lowell)
I am over the moon! We are both over the moon and will be even more so when this is over. (Quote by - Prince Andrew)
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. (Quote by - Ian Poulter)
The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows, Far west, among those flowers of the shadows, The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her, Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer Unto the harvest of the eternal summer, Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
I was over the moon to get pole but this is definitely on a different planet for me (Quote by - Lewis Hamilton)
I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon... and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself. (Quote by - Pete Conrad)
The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast. (Quote by - William R. Alger)
The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images. (Quote by - Sheila Ballantyne)
I think that when people hear that my middle name is Moon they start to wonder a thing or two about my parents! (Quote by - Soleil Frye)
I'm absolutely over the moon.Having the Christmas number one is an amazing ending to an amazing year and I'm overwhelmed and thrilled. (Quote by - Leon Jackson)
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. (Quote by - John Drinkwater)
Three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon, and the truth (Quote by - Buddha)
How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne! (Quote by - George Croly)
He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
