Moon Quotes

"'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."
-Joaquin Miller

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
-Buddha

"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides."
-Rita Mae Brown

"I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth."
-John F. Kennedy

"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! Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win!"
-John F. Kennedy

"Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars."
-Les Brown

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."
-Les Brown

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."
-Confucius

"When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!"
-David Starr Jordan

"There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery."
-Joseph Conrad

"Race to the Moon."
-Frank Borman

"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."
-George Carlin

"You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones."
-Keith Richards

"NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end."
-Matthew Aid

"I think that the advantage of having an 'all clear' is that you have a factor which you can use in the scheduling of EVAs. This allows you to avoid times that are less fortunate. I believe this will be important as we return to the Moon."
-Richard Fisher

"There's a moon in my body, but I can't see it!A moon and a sun.A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can't hear it!"
-K. Ashraful Kabir

"The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
-Henry Ellis

"This is a long way off, equivalent to two thirds of the distance from the Earth to the Moon."
-Horst Uwe Keller

"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
-Carl Sandburg

"The moon is brighter since the barn burned."
-Matsuo Basho

"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other."
-Sojourner Truth

"He will be absolutely over the moon."
-Dorothy Woodward

"Old Devil Moon."
-Robert Norton

"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."
-Franklin P. Jones

"You need to conquer the moon before you can conquer Mars. And conquering it means more than stepping foot on it."
-Bart Gordon

"This book in particular helps them see that they can do anything. If you have a book you can do anything or go anywhere, including the moon."
-Mary Harvey

"The first step to Mars and beyond is getting back to the Moon."
-Scott Horowitz

"Half Moon Bay is becoming a recognized destination. We have been very, very pleased with the amount of local business too."
-Paul Ratchford