Moon View Quotes

#1. The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. The dark circle became a dot on the moon-flooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view.

Jack London

#3. Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go,
And view the ocean leaning on the sky:
From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know,
And on the Lunar world securely pry.

John Dryden

#4. We had need to borrow that fantastic glass,invented by Galileo the Florentine
To view another spacious world in the moon
and look to find a constant woman there

John Webster

#5. [The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

Frank Borman

#6. The moon is whole all the time, but we can't always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there's only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.

Alice Sebold

#7. The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me
a small disk, 240,000 miles away ... Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

Frank Borman

#8. A wise Chinese saying--'A frog at the bottom of a well has a limited view of the sky.

Dave And Neta Jackson

#9. 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.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. Let Ra grant to me a view of the Disk (the Sun), and a sight of Ah (the Moon) unfailingly each day. Let my Ba-soul come forth to walk about hither and thither and whithersoever it pleaseth.

Raymond O. Faulkner

#11. Since my house burned down I now own a better view of the rising moon.

Mizuta Masahide

#12. I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Clifford Geertz

#13. It is a very naive view to think that the resources and conditions on earth would last forever. Our race has to take necessary steps to be able to develop the technology necessary to live on other planets and moons and to reach to farther corners of the galaxy.

Anousheh Ansari

#14. Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.

Tom Robbins

#15. It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.

Shulamith Firestone

#16. The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it is in earthshine. It's a view worth the price of the trip.

Neil Armstrong

#17. As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.

Daniel J. Rice

#18. On the periscope ... What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured up to Hatteras ... I can see [lake] Okeechobee. Identify Andros Island. Identify the reefs.

Alan Shepard

#19. With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)

Joseph Campbell

#20. He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.

William Hazlitt

#21. I look at the stars and I see you,
I look at the moon and I see you,
I look at the trees and I see you,
Please step aside, you are blocking my view.

Anonymous

#22. The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.

Theodore Hesburgh