Moon Quotes - page 2

The Moon like a flower In heaven's high bower, With silent delight, Sits and smiles on the night. (William Blake)
If the sun and moon should doubt they'd immediately go out. View quote
William Blake
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets. View quote
Thomas More
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star. View quote
Confucius
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright. View quote
Vitruvius
It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun. View quote
Vitruvius
But, true, I've wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter. View quote
Arthur Rimbaud
Insatiate archer could not one suffice Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn. View quote
Edward Young
O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. View quote
William Shakespeare
The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps- does anybody know where it was borne Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born . . . . (Rabindranath Tagore)
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. View quote
Christopher Columbus
That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the Moon. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either. View quote
Junot Diaz
There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks. View quote
Jonathan Maberry
The moon shows the truth of things. View quote
Joseph Delaney
Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles. View quote
Carol P. Christ
My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected. View quote
Duncan Sheik
I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program. (Linda M. Godwin)
Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking. View quote
Michael Nesmith
The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world. View quote
Tim LaHaye
Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond. View quote
Tatum O'Neal
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. View quote
Walter Lang