After two stories, I blew out my light. The night was clear. My ceiling was the sky and an eyelash of the moon. By shifting from side to side, I made my hammock swing me into sleep.

I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn’t glow. The sun didn’t rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South, Wind and rain. Every way is Just the same. Pray give me a box To hide inside. Pray give me a spade To dig my own grave.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.

Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, ‘Le Voyage’ features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth’s gods.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

When the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

The Moon was but a Chin of Gold A Night or two ago — And now she turns Her perfect Face Upon the World below —

A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.

In hopes, you’re on the other side talking to me, too Or am I a fool who sits alone talking to the moon?

At night, when the stars light up my room I sit by myself Talking to the moon

My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

We’ve gotta reinvest in space travel. We should’ve never left the moon.

It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it.

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon.

We have learned how to navigate to the moon. That is like the ancient Chinese mainlanders learning how to get to Formosa; Formosa is the moon. After we settle it, we jump off from there to Mars, just like they went next to the Philippines. And from there across our vast galaxy. If the Austronesians can sail in there boats and scatter into settlements across Oceania, we can take our spacecraft and scatter and settle across the Milky Way. It may take even longer than it took the Austronesians, but if they did it, so can we, because they are us.

The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking.

Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievement and progress. It is both the key and the quest that advances mankind. The search for knowledge is what brought men to the moon; but it took knowledge already acquired to make it possible to get there.

Science fiction writers thought it would be possible. H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and other authors found ways to get people to the moon. But none of those writers foresaw any possibility of the lunar explorers being able to communicate with Earth, transmit data, position information, or transmit moving pictures of what they saw back to Earth. The authors foresaw my part of the adventure, but your part was beyond their comprehension.

It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed… Magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

I flew to the Moon not so much to go there, but as part of developing the system that would allow it to happen.

How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

We were involved in doing what many thought to be impossible, putting humans on Earth’s moon.

I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full – a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon’s waning.

As the water manifests the brightness of the moon, the moon manifests the clarity of the water

It’s like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

When you point a finger at the moon to indicate the moon, instead of looking at the moon, the stupid ones look at your finger.

And beauty is a form of genius — is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. You smile? Ah! when you have lost it you won’t smile

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Drink wine and look at the moon
and think of all the civilisations
the moon has seen passing by.

How sad, a heart that
does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk with love.
If you are not in love, how can you enjoy
the blinding light of the sun,
the soft light of the moon?

The moon gravitates towards the earth, and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

We didn’t go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we’re Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.

Earth has also tidally locked the Moon, leaving it with identical periods of rotation on its axis and revolution around Earth. Wherever and whenever this happens, the locked moon shows only one face to its host planet.

The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It’s a slightly bigger moon; I ain’t using the adjective ‘supermoon.’

Next time you’re stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

When Kennedy said, ‘Let’s go to the moon,’ we didn’t yet have a vehicle that wouldn’t kill you on launch. He said we’ll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.

We went to the moon and discovered earth.

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It’s called the moon illusion.

It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are – even the moon.

You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows.

Does the full moon affect people’s behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people’s behavior.

It’s not imagination on my part when I say that to look up at the sky, the clouds, the moon, and the stars make me calm and patient. It’s a better medicine than either valerian or bromine; mother nature makes me humble and prepared to face every blow courageously

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.