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  • I look like the man in the moon. -- Martin Freeman
  • Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon. -- Harry Chapin
  • Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the miracles of Dr. Faustus, things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. -- Daniel Defoe
  • And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then. -- Harry Chapin
  • I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon....But at least a forester worked in the woods and with the woods - and I loved the woods and everything about them....My Father's suggestion settled the question in favor of forestry. -- Gifford Pinchot
  • 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
  • I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it. -- Kathryn Lasky
  • 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
  • In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. -- John F. Kennedy
  • What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence? -- Jerome Cavanagh
  • 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
  • I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon. -- Joyce Meyer
  • Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure? -- John F. Kennedy
  • I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye. -- Kage Baker
  • This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general. -- Cat Stevens
  • To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. -- Lee De Forest
  • 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
  • Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie 'Brother Sun, Sister Moon'... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything. -- Rich Mullins
  • One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were. -- Charles Stross
  • I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden. -- Moon Unit Zappa
  • I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam. -- Sun Myung Moon
  • What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit? -- Frank Zappa
  • Self-loathing is man's effort to sweep the moon of footprints." -- Joseph Grammer
  • I want to be the first black man on the moon -- Muhammad Ali
  • Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees. -- Mark Twain
  • I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon. -- Eugene Cernan
  • [Man will never reach the Moon] regardless of all future scientific advances. -- Lee De Forest
  • I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon. -- Eugene Cernan
  • When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger. -- Confucius
  • They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run. -- Gaylord Perry
  • If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable. -- Sara Blakely
  • There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run. -- Alvin Dark
  • Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon, -- James Irwin
  • That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon. -- Grace Lin
  • Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor. -- Richard Paul Evans
  • Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools? -- B. F. Skinner
  • If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon. -- Krafft Arnold Ehricke
  • What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon? -- Leonard Nimoy
  • If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today. -- John Sculley
  • A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman? -- Kylie Bax
  • If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today -- John Sculley
  • America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • A woman's heart is much like the moon, always changing but always has a man in it. -- Grenville Kleiser
  • A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances. -- Lee De Forest
  • Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. -- Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. -- Marion Cotillard
  • Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite. -- Elie Wiesel
  • One step at a time, a man walked on the moon. One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!' -- Q-Tip
  • No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness. -- Wilfred Owen
  • We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. -- Anais Nin
  • The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon. -- George du Maurier
  • So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • We did 'Erin Brockovich', we did 'Man on the Moon', we did 'Living Out Loud', but now I'm going to keep going. -- Danny DeVito
  • A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one. -- Douglas William Jerrold
  • Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man. -- Jules Verne
  • Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will. -- John von Neumann
  • How in this world can we put a man on the moon, and still have a need for a place like St. Judes? -- Clay Walker
  • What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man. -- Wernher von Braun
  • While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing. -- Katha Pollitt
  • Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
  • Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • 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
  • Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand! -- George Whitefield
  • 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
  • The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree. -- Audrey Hepburn
  • Another relative?" Valek asked. A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother's uncle's wife's third cousin." --Valek and Moon Man -- Maria V. Snyder
  • How slow This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires, Like to a stepdame, or a dowager, Long withering out a young man's revenue. -- William Shakespeare
  • It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth. -- Neil Armstrong
  • Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man -- Hanshan
  • Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein? -- Robert Frost
  • We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going. -- Danny DeVito
  • First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon. -- John F. Kennedy
  • 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
  • Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 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
  • Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being -- Rajneesh
  • Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon. -- Philip Sidney
  • Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon. -- David Brewster
  • If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him? -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon. -- Susan Howatch
  • Even a man who's pure in heart And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright. -- Curt Siodmak
  • I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon? -- Charles M. Schulz
  • on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry. -- William Butler Yeats
  • Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it. -- Mark Twain
  • If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. -- Peter Singer
  • Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor! -- Sathya Sai Baba
  • Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside; each with an excellence! -- Marianne Moore
  • 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
  • At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon. -- Dambisa Moyo
  • President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan - to drill where no man has drilled before. -- Craig Kilborn
  • By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler? -- Terry Pratchett
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