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I believe 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 the earth.

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! Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win!

John F. Kennedy

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

Les Brown

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

Les Brown

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

Confucius

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

David Starr Jordan

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

Henri Frederic Amiel

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

Joseph Conrad

Race to the Moon.

Frank Borman

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

George Carlin

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

Keith Richards

NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end.

Matthew Aid

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Henry Ellis

'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

Joaquin Miller

I think that the advantage of having an 'all clear' is that you have a factor which you can use in the scheduling of EVAs. This allows you to avoid times that are less fortunate. I believe this will be important as we return to the Moon.

Richard Fisher

This is a long way off, equivalent to two thirds of the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

Horst Uwe Keller

There's a moon in my body, but I can't see it!A moon and a sun.A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can't hear it!

K. Ashraful Kabir

I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.

Arthur J. Goldberg

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Carl Sandburg

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

Matsuo Basho

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

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

Sojourner Truth

He will be absolutely over the moon.

Dorothy Woodward

Old Devil Moon.

Robert Norton

Half Moon Bay is becoming a recognized destination. We have been very, very pleased with the amount of local business too.

Paul Ratchford

The first step to Mars and beyond is getting back to the Moon.

Scott Horowitz

You need to conquer the moon before you can conquer Mars. And conquering it means more than stepping foot on it.

Bart Gordon

This book in particular helps them see that they can do anything. If you have a book you can do anything or go anywhere, including the moon.

Mary Harvey

[Nearly four decades later, his ardor has hardly dimmed. Mr. Hanks starred in the film] Apollo 13 ... From the Earth to the Moon.

Apollo 13

This was on par with a space launch today. This was on par with someone going to the moon. It was the cutting edge of technology. The fact that it was done here, in the backwaters of (what was then) Virginia, is really interesting.

Jay Hurley

The accuracy we achieved would be like kicking a soccer ball on the Earth and scoring a goal on the moon.

Marc Rayman

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

Pete Conrad

He saw this incredible band of clouds and the moon, and he slammed on the brakes.

Bill Turnage

We're also stoking the fire under Blue Moon, which is in the important craft- beer segment.

Frits Van Paasschen

Ronnie - to my mind - is the best that's ever played the game so I knew I had to play well and I have done, so I am over the moon.

John Higgins

It shouldn't be a race to the moon. This shouldn't be about one state being compared to another, but we all know that's what happens. And that gives states incentives to tweak their formulas so that they look better.

Kathy Christie

Establishing research stations on the moon will give us the experience and capabilities to extend to Mars and beyond.

Butler Hine

That's the job Hubble had to do at the moon. It was a noteworthy undertaking. This is in some sense the miracle on the moon.

Jim Garvin

The next footsteps on the moon could be Chinese.

Phillip Clark

It started with the plot. What do you do on your day off? Of course you go to the moon. Why? Because you're out of cheese.

Peter Sallis

It's not a big deal for me. I played college hockey at St. Mary's in Minnesota. We'd have bus trips that were 15, 16 hours long. It doesn't bother me, but for a 17-, 15-, 14-year-old kid, it might as well be to the moon and back.

Matt Dineen

Tis the witching hour of night, Or bed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they?

John Keats

Absolutely unbelievable, I'm just over the moon. I guess you dream about things like that - it's fantastic.

Karen Murphy

If we are correct about our lunar mission cost estimates, our type of human mission could have 40 people visiting the moon for the cost of NASA's first mission.

Jim Benson

The idea is to utilize resources there to reduce the costs of going to the Moon .

Mark Robinson

It's the fastest spacecraft ever launched. It will get to the Moon in nine hours?it will get to Jupiter in one year and nine months.

Colleen Hartman

We suddenly have the global view, the view of the Earth from the moon, and it's pretty thrilling.

Harold Varmus

I am absolutely over the moon and hope it gives the supporters a real boost.

Graham Rix

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

David Mallet

The moon was shining. It was the brightest night.

Muriel Bates

You Moon! Have you done something wrong in heaven, / That God has hidden your face?

Jean Ingelow

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddha

When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.

Bruce Lee

Four hours from D.C. might as well be the moon.

Joann Burkholder

The Dark Side of the Moon.

Alon Pinkas

JFK wanted to put a man on the moon. My vision is to put every American man and woman on a campus. ... The World is Flat.

Thomas Friedman

We have just digested the best of the Clementine images, so we can now deliver the Moon at 66-feet resolution. This is a first.

Patrick Hogan

Clipper could also support exploration of the Moon. The concept could even be aimed at going much further.

Alan Thirkettle

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

Robert Bly

Something that has not been said about the moon? That it gives manicures to women sleepwalkers.

Ramon Gomez De La Serna

If grief or anger arises,Let there be grief or anger.This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha.It is the universe offering all thingsto awaken and open our heart.

Jack Kornfield

As the moon is bodily entering into the shadow of the Earth, it appears as if this shadow is creeping across the moon. However, during total eclipse, you get these beautiful colors.

Brad Schaefer

This can happen, ... The moon is going to be the industrial center of all the things we do in space. It truly is a frontier. There is incredible wealth out there.

Ben Bova

A Walk On the Moon.

Tony Goldwyn

That was just awesome, I'm over the moon.

Libby Lenton

This was the 19th Century equivalent of man landing on the moon.

Bob Campbell

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, / And moon-struck madness.

John Milton

We are over the moon at the news.

Joe Carroll

We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

Charles de Gaulle

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures . . .

M. F. K. Fisher

This research shows that even after the collisions happened, the earth had a profound effect on the moon.

Laramie Potts

I don't know if it was a full moon or whatever. That's just baseball. You have to deal with it. I just want the kids to know the support is there and to keep on playing hard.

Pat O'neil

We're completely over the moon to have won. It was a dream start for us, although we're not going to get carried away by one win.

Sean Lamont

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3-D.

Mark Cowen

Sometimes the snow comes down in June, sometimes the sun goes around the moon.

Vanessa Williams

The computers that were secretly developed to go to the moon are now on your desktop.

Nick Cook

I think some people think there hasn't been as much results from the first moon launch, walking on the moon, but I think, I'm hoping it will change.

Prentice Carte

Max was a genuine icon, a down-to-earth Cajun with a very nuts-and-bolts approach to engineering. He contributed immeasurably to America's successes in human space flight. His genius allowed us to compete and win the space race to the moon.

William Readdy

When I was your age, I saw the first satellite go around the earth. Today, you will have a chance to imagine what it's like on the moon.

Peter Schultz

This is a modest request. We could have asked for the moon, but we're not.

David Carle

Moon-washed apples of wonder.

John Drinkwater

The Apollo program, the race to the moon became emblematic of American science and technology.

D. Miller

What they're really developing is equipment to do a rational space station and a Moon programme later.

Robert Zubrin

I think in about 10 to 15 years, we will have the ability to build our own space station and to carry out a manned moon landing.

Hu Shixiang

Knowing that you were going to fly to the moon, walk on the moon, defies description.

Fred Haise

Or it's the equivalent of going to the moon and back four times.

Donna White

I like that I'm a Gemini. I just like the duality of it but I don't check my moon rising or anything like that.

Corey Hart

We've got to go [back to the moon]. But we don't want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

Buzz Aldrin

We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 290,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week, but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

Andy Rooney

Beyond the Moon: Failure Is Not an Option II ... Apollo 13.

Apollo 13

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

Havelock Ellis

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

Hal Borland

We're bowling so much better than last year, averaging almost 900, which is pretty good. We're in a competitive section. Moon and Montour are very good.

Bob Brasko

That will only happen if I have a bout of amnesia or if I feel like mooning someone in the audience.

Daryl Hannah

We can't really take any credit, we were lucky. We were in the right place at the right time and we were gritty enough to hang in there. But all the credit goes to the crew and the captain and to Bill Blount because he was the one who checked the moon phases.

Pete West

Why this is important is because these resources can make future human occupation of the moon much more cost effective. If we can live off the land and use the resources that are available, then it becomes much less expensive.

Butler Hine

Tony is the one who knows how to fly us to the moon and get us back.

Quincy Jones

I'm just over the moon.

Lynn Redgrave

If they've had the moon shot, protecting it makes some sense. They've presumably gotten it through something growing quickly.

Bob Doll

Tonight was a full moon. It wasn't a good night for the Tigers.

Matt Cimo

It is like a finger pointing toward the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

Bruce Lee

This has been the hardest title I have won and Mark is the hardest finalist, this is the guy for the future. I am over the moon to win it again.

Phil Taylor

It's the sort of thing that has its greatest impact on the working-class places like the Blue Moon, and the upper-class places are less affected.

Gus Hellthaler

(Moon Area) played so tough tonight.

Jordan Zuppe

Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.

Norm Macdonald

You could have sat anywhere (on the moon) and been hit by these little glass beads.

Richard Muller

That's a big reason to buy this book. The minute this book goes away, you know they're going to steal Lockjaw, stick him on the moon and you're never going to see him again.

Dan Slott

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Gary Allan

We had two men to choose from, and Neil Armstrong, reticent, soft-spoken, and heroic was our only choice. He had no ego. He was not of a mind that, 'Hey, I'm going to be the first man on the moon!' That was never what Neil had in his head.

Chris Kraft

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

Pink Floyd

It's like putting someone out in space for the first time, ... It's not yet to the moon or to another planet, but it is a major milestone.

Tom Hudson

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

Bobby Sands

I’m absolutely over the moon. Steve was my boyhood idol and I had beaten him in the past but not here, which is like his second home.

Shaun Murphy

Everybody was over the moon, you know, we were just flying from that performance. It was chilling. You know, sort of blood chilling performance. I couldn't believe she was my daughter.

Blythe Danner

Everybody is totally over the moon and ready to go home.

Simon Halls

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

Tavis Smiley

It looks like the surface of the moon. We are documenting everything and will be testing to see how to do a better job of stabilizing the cliff.

David Woodcock

Rev. Moon still has a major influence on the University of Bridgeport and his understanding of human sexuality is extremely limited.

Paul Lewis

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Titus Maccius Plautus

If you do not agree with the phases of the moon, get a ladder and repair it.

Hausa Proverb

We call this 'Cold Faithful'. The moon is one thousandth as big as our moon and has one, one-hundredths of Earth's gravity.

Linda Spilker

Ever since my house burned down, I see the moon more clearly.

Gregory Colbert

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Joseph Bayly

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

Alvin Dark

The white saucer like some full moon descends / At last from the clouds of the table above.

Harold Monro

In some respects, it is kind of like a moon shot. You don't aim your rocket where the moon is now but where it is going to be when you get there.

Ray Boggs

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.

Tom Hanks

Max was a genuine icon, a down-to-earth Cajun with a very nuts-and-bolts approach to engineering, ... He contributed immeasurably to America's successes in human space flight. His genius allowed us to compete and win the space race to the moon.

William Readdy

I expect because of the full moon and the season it'll be pretty crowded. It's a good season to go: not too hot, not too cold.

Troy Mcmahan

[The Democrats limited their request to internal memos and recommendations related to 16 cases, and emphasized that it was no random fishing expedition.] This is a modest request, ... We could have asked for the moon, but we're not.

David Carle

We went to the Moon because of the cold war and won hands down. Now there's no political reason to do it.

Robert Park

[Williams] is afraid I'm going to get hurt. He said there's no fine, but if I do it again, there will be a fine. It's only once in a blue moon you get to do that anyway, so it's not like it's an everyday thing they're taking away from us. I'd do it if there was no one in here. I did it when I was a little kid in my backyard during the summertime.

Mark Buehrle

Jon produced it. He did a very nice job, actually, ... Fly Me To The Moon.

Richie Sambora

The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.

Brad Sherman

It's guaranteed to turn your lawn silver and black, but every once in a blue moon you'll see moss on the grass.

Dwight Perry

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; There is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Matsuo Basho

If there are no major problems, China's first unmanned satellite to the moon will be launched in 2007.

Luan Enjie

If we had jurisdiction, we would be taking a close look at the effects to Moon Brook.

William Burke

This allowed us to look at the Moon with new eyes. We haven't had ultraviolet vision before to do this.

James Garvin

It's meant to service the space station and to go between Earth and an orbit around the Moon with six crew members.

Alain Fournier

No sun - no moon! / No morn - no noon - / No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day -.

Thomas Hood

Right now, I don't have any emotions. I thought when I first won, I'd be jumping to the moon. But it's like it hasn't sunk in yet.

Wes Short Jr

You only get 10 games. Put me out on the moon against the worst team in the country and I'll be excited to play football.

Jeff Mroz

We send space shuttles to the moon and Mars but we know so little about our own planet.

Lucas Stal

Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.

Goodman Ace

White in the moon the long road lies.

A. E. Housman

The flight controllers, the people who manned the trenches in mission control, these were kids. They were in their 20s and 30s. And they were controlling a moon mission.

Andrew Chaikin

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

Sheila Ballantyne

As long as the sun shines one does not ask for the moon.

Russian proverb

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon. They danced by the light of the moon.

Edward Lear

Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, / The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: / How oft hereafter rising shall she look;/ Through this same Garden after me - in vain!

Edward Fitzgerald

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

E. Y. Harburg