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The moon19 quotes
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong · 1969In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. — Dogen · 1253Till clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The moving Moon went up the sky,
And no where did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside- — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Magnificent desolation. — Buzz Aldrin · 1969All 19 quotes →The night sky4 quotes
In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962Till clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The moving Moon went up the sky,
And no where did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside- — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires: Hesperus that led
The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon
Rising in clouded Majesty, at length
Apparent Queen unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. — John Milton · 1667The sun3 quotes
The moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. — William Shakespeare · 1616And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. — Genesis 1:16 · 1405 BCHe makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term. — Muhammad · 632Moonlight2 quotes
The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights up the earth at its fullest. — Sappho · 570 BCNow glowed the firmament
With living sapphires: Hesperus that led
The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon
Rising in clouded Majesty, at length
Apparent Queen unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. — John Milton · 1667Stars2 quotes
In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962Till clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The moon landing2 quotes
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong · 1969Magnificent desolation. — Buzz Aldrin · 1969Astronomy1 quote
Till clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Creation of the world1 quote
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. — Genesis 1:16 · 1405 BCGod and nature1 quote
He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term. — Muhammad · 632God is in control1 quote
He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term. — Muhammad · 632Inconstancy1 quote
O, swear not by the moon, th'inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. — William Shakespeare · 1597Insanity1 quote
It is the very error of the moon.
She comes more nearer Earth than she was wont
And makes men mad. — William Shakespeare · 1604Nature1 quote
In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolical language for something within me that already and for ever exists, than observing anything new. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1805Night and day1 quote
He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term. — Muhammad · 632Progress1 quote
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong · 1969Space Race1 quote
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong · 1969Technological progress1 quote
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong · 1969The ineffable1 quote
In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolical language for something within me that already and for ever exists, than observing anything new. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1805The sky1 quote
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. — Dogen · 1253