Quotes by Moon To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside. Conan O'Brien circles moon white When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger. Confucius moon wise men The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. Confucius failure moon reality All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great. Confucius moon rivers heaven They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before. Conor Oberst black moon depression I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone. Conor Oberst moon gone long Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that. Coolio life-is-too-short moon fun The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning. Cormac McCarthy moon blue past There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless. Cormac McCarthy moon gone rain I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower! Coventry Patmore flower moon water Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child. Craig Ferguson moon long children President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan - to drill where no man has drilled before. Craig Kilborn moon president men I have been known on occasion to howl at the moon. Crash Davis durham howl moon After a while the press of business in the province put an end to our philosophizing, and I returned with increased determination to my plans to fly to the Moon. Cyrano de Bergerac moon determination ends 'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time; I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.' Cyrano de Bergerac gentleman moon believe A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles. Czeslaw Milosz garden moon men There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us. D. H. Lawrence dragons moon blood The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time. D. H. Lawrence moon heart running He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being. D. H. Lawrence leader moon sun The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? D. H. Lawrence moon men past «1718192021222324252627»