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Quotes About Moon

then to the dance, and make the sober moon... witness of joys that shun the sights of noon.
~ William Cowper
The world is still, for she is old And many´s the bead of life she´s told. Her gossip there, the watching moon Views hill and stream and wave and dune
~ William Faulkner
After a while a three-quarter moon eased up over the treeline and the dusty road went white as milk, Rorshach patches of grass bleeding through the white dust that rose and subsided with Boyd's footfalls.
~ William Gay
Up there in the sky. Don't you see him? No, not the moon. The Man in the Moon. He wasn't always a man. Nor was he always on the moon. He was once a child. Like you. Until a battle, a shooting star, and a lost balloon led him on a quest. Meet the very first Guardian of Childhood. MiM, the Man in the Moon.
~ William Joyce
Long after dark, the moon rose, full. All the stars around it vanished as if the moon were a bucket that had scooped them up, filling itself to overflowing with their silver light.
~ William Kent Krueger
Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.
~ David Brewster
Brassa,' she whispered, 'what is the moon? Why does it grow in the sky?' 'Because the moon is the goddess Tor,' answered Brassa softly, smiling down at Larka, 'looking down on us all. As some say the fury of the sun is the hunter Fenris snarling at the Varg, so they say the moon is the wolf goddess, opening her eyes wider and wider and stroking the world with her kindness.
~ David Clement-Davies
Facing Snow Thin slice of ascending light, radiant arc Tipped aside bellied dark- the first moon Appears, and barely risen beyond ancient Frontier passes, edges into clouds. Silver, Changeless, the Star River spreads across Mountains empty in their own cold. Lucent Frost dusts the courtyard, chrysanthemum Blossoms clotted there with solemn dark. Tu Fu
~ David Hinton
8th Moon, 17th Night: Facing the Moon The autumn moon is still round tonight. In this river village, isolate old wanderer Hoisting blinds, I return to its brilliance, And propped on a cane, follow it further: Radiance rousing hidden dragons, bright Scatters of birds aflutter. Thatched study Incandescent, I trust to this orange grove Ablaze: clear dew aching with fresh light. Tu Fu
~ David Hinton
The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.
~ Albert Pike
Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.
~ Peter Kreeft
And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!
~ Anton Chekhov
Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes!
~ Louise Rennison
There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.
~ Grant Morrison
You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?
~ Jean Ingelow
I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.
~ Harrison Salisbury
Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.
~ Nostradamus
Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.
~ Sigurd F. Olson
When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
~ Gautama Buddha
Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.
~ Alfred Worden
And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.
~ Robert Bridges
I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
~ Stephenie Meyer, Twilight