Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Cernan

As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. As I take these last steps from the surface for some time to come, I'd just like to record that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. Godspeed the crew of Apollo Seventeen.

Gene Cernan

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

Jeanne Calment

I'd like to go to the Moon.

Gherman Titov

I am eagle, I am eagle!

Giacomo Leopardi

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

Ian Dury

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

Horace

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

Homer

I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket and flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed?

William Shakespeare

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears; soft stillness, and the nightBecome the touches of sweet harmony.

Eric Carle

Papa, please get the moon for me.

Elon Musk

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

Elon Musk

It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

Jason Schwartzman

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

Italo Calvino

Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.

Jack Gilbert

We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life.

Jack Gilbert

We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.

Guy Maddin

I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously planned. It was planned like NASA planned its trips to the moon. It made me feel like some sort of horrible dilettante.

Georges Simenon

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

Harry Caray

Would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs?

Harry Caray

We all know the moon isn't made out of blue cheese...but if it was made out of bbq spare ribs would you eat it?

Harry Chapin

All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.

Jack Campbell

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

Logan Pearsall Smith

An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon and I don't exactly know what to do with it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.

John Glenn

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

John Fogerty

There's a bad moon on the rise.

John Fogerty

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

John Fowles

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

John F. Kennedy

While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the photographs brought back from Apollo 8 created the environmental movement. "They fuelled an awareness of the vulnerability of the Earth which still resonates with us today and shapes our behaviour." It was Kennedy who started it all with his pledge:

John F. Kennedy

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

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.

Katha Pollitt

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.