On The Moon Quotes

#1. I don't know," Magda says, "Seems like that's just how it is with you and me. We're like islands on the moon.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.

Wilson Greatbatch

#3. It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

Franklin P. Jones

#4. Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

Richard M. Nixon

#5. MYTH506. | There is an American flag on the Moon. According to Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronauts who was on the Moon, he and Neil Armstrong accidentally placed the original American flag too close to their spacecraft, and when they took off, the flag was blown away.

John Brown

#6. If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.

Mark Spitz

#7. One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.

Tommy Lee

#8. Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

Gene Cernan

#9. Every great idea, invention and even mankind's footsteps on the moon ... started as a dream first.

Timothy Pina

#10. I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

David Mackay

#11. As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that ... adventure travel.

Buzz Aldrin

#12. The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.

Doug Rader

#13. I grew up expecting to see the first man land on the moon. It never occurred to me that I'd see the last one. We thought there'd be a moon base.

Terry Pratchett

#14. What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.

Russell Baker

#15. When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon - and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio. The future felt limitless. But today, our government is broken.

Peter Thiel

#16. She's the hottest pop star since Madonna. I'm gonna break it to you gently, Cuz. You have less than nothing in common. There's more chance of you walking on the moon than claiming her as your Mate. And she's human. Don't you need to mate with a wolf?

Sofia Grey

#17. The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

Eugene Cernan

#18. Today everything is so complex as to be incomprehensible. What sense does it make for men to walk on the moon while other men are waiting on welfare lines, or in Vietnam killing and dying for a corrupt dictatorship in the name of freedom?

Saul D. Alinsky

#19. We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out, those footprints will be there forever because there's no wind.

Frank Cottrell Boyce

#20. It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

Alan Bean

#21. Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?

Neil Armstrong

#22. In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing.

Jimmy Fallon

#23. I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Jean Alesi

#24. I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

Wernher Von Braun

#25. On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.

Shirley Jackson

#26. Like the earth pulling on the moon,
and the moon pulling on the tide,
his lips gravitate
toward mine.

Sarah Tregay

#27. This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.

Brewster Kahle

#28. 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

#29. 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.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#30. 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.

Jim Lovell

#31. I grew up a dreamer, lonely, one foot on the earth, the other on the moon.

Philippe Lechermeier

#32. Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

B.F. Skinner

#33. I tried to get through to my brother, Mike, on the Moon, but the phone company wouldn't let me place the call until I had signed a contract and posted a $25,000 bond.

Joe Haldeman

#34. A man once believed he could fly - and he did.
Another believed he could walk on the moon - and he did.
Why not believe your wildest dreams can come true?
Why not see the stars as reachable?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#35. Organizing healthcare information is a daunting task, but it is not an impossible task. We've had people walk on the moon. This is a lot more doable.

Bill Maris

#36. On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.

Shirley Jackson

#37. As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter ... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.

Johannes Kepler

#38. If there'd been an astronaut on the moon right then, I'm sure I could have seen him. Perhaps he could have looked down and seen me too ... the only one who could.

Lucy Christopher

#39. There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

Buzz Aldrin

#40. Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionately that this is an interesting human adventure. This is one of the things we're doing that is really fundamentally important, as we leave our home planet, but also exciting.

Chris Hadfield

#41. If the Modern Technical Age is to remain human, it cannot overlook the trust that our ancestors have left with us. Our past cannot be mere matter for a more or less curious utilitarianism, like iron deposits, say, on the moon.

Marshall G.S. Hodgson

#42. A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation's future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if one day Westerners leave their footprints on the moon, we shall place a Turkish one among those.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#43. Don't tell me the sky is the limit - there's footprints on the Moon. - Overheard at a flee market.

Joseph Shellim

#44. If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.

Laurie Anderson

#45. A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.

Vera Nazarian

#46. Love was like walking on the moon. A springy step in your heel like you had a heart for cushioning to step on until it burst and the blood floating in red pods among the glowing craters to be boiled into a refining mist in the naked, eternal sunlight.

Carl-John X. Veraja

#47. Technology had failed me. We could put a man on the moon and make computers that fit in my back pocket, but I still couldn't strangle anybody via telephone. Life really was a bitch.

Marie Sexton

#48. I assure you, my dear, were you to play the piano on the moon, I would hear every chord.

Amor Towles

#49. I don't get why people say the sky's the limit when we have footprints on the moon.

Lorde

#50. I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

Christa McAuliffe

#51. Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.

Alfonso Cuaron

#52. It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.

Michio Kaku

#53. I Mean come on, if they can put a man on the moon, we ought to be able to put one in your bedroom.

Jackie Bouchard

#54. And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky.
'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.'
'I told you that you would like it on the moon.

Shirley Jackson

#55. If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

Doug Rader

#56. I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

Doug Liman

#57. We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Ray Bradbury

#58. I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.

Elon Musk

#59. The human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon
Ship of Fools

Jim Morrison

#60. The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them..

J.G. Farrell

#61. There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell.

C. G. Jung

#62. I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.

Eugene Cernan

#63. Kill us in the clear light on the Moon, where the sky is black and soft, where the stars shine brightly, where the cleanliness and purity of vacuum make all things sharp.

- Not in this low-clinging, fuzzy blue.

Isaac Asimov

#64. When we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state,

Newt Gingrich

#65. The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

Luis Von Ahn

#66. Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

David R. Brower

#67. Don't tell me the skies the limit when there are footprints on the moon.

-Aminah Iman

Aminah Iman

#68. I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

Tim Burton

#69. They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.

Gaylord Perry

#70. One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.

Eugene Cernan

#71. Here was our future of cheese-food and aerosol propellants, Styrofoam and Club Med on the moon, roast beef served in a toothpaste tube.

Chuck Palahniuk

#72. Their kiss was like a paper airplane landing on the moon.

Tom Robbins

#73. By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

Wernher Von Braun

#74. With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink.

Peter Diamandis

#75. I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Neil Armstrong

#76. The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.

Ferdinand Magellan

#77. Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.

Edgar Mitchell

#78. She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there
like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

Katherine Paterson

#79. If I spelled out the Principles of Faith
I would be barking on the moon.

Leonard Cohen

#80. What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more.

Anthony Burgess

#81. I could see Armstrong bouncing on the moon

Alexey Leonov

#82. What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

Leonard Nimoy

#83. She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's a time to change
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June.

Train

#84. Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.

Shirley Jackson

#85. Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

Buzz Aldrin

#86. Your cell phone today has more computer power than all of NASA when it put two men on the moon in 1969.

Michio Kaku

#87. We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

John Phillips

#88. Wisdom of the Ages: Do the aliens on the moon pull down their pants and 'earth' their friends for fun?

Matthew D. Heines

#89. I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Alan Shepard

#90. You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

Edgar Mitchell

#91. If Gran says, 'Reach for the stars
that way, if you miss, you'll land on the moon,' then Mama says, 'If you spend all your time reaching for the stars, don't come crying to me when you walk right into a tree.

Sarah Rubin

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

Jack London

#93. More than five hundred people have flown in space and twelve people have walked on the moon, but only three humans in history have been to the bottom of the ocean.

Bill Nye

#94. I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

John F. Kennedy

#95. Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.

Brock Yates

#96. I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.

Buzz Aldrin

#97. Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, "If we can put a man on the moon ... ," grab your wallet.

Jonah Goldberg

#98. I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

Buzz Aldrin

#99. Being on the moon is about harnessing science and technology. Waveless waterbeds are about harnessing nature and that, by definition, is not natural," I shot back.
"Babe, you're not lyin' on a miracle," he said through a lip twitch.
"No, I'm lying under one.

Kristen Ashley

#100. Why is the sky the limit when there is footprints on the moon

E.M. Sky