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