Man In The Moon Quotes

• Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moon, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivational, Positive, Moon

  In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20

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• When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

  Jill Shalvis

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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• You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

  Paul Stanley

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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• Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Men, Feet

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• 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

  Believe, Moon, Men

  Special message to joint session of Congress on urgent national needs, 25 May 1961

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• Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

  Chuck Noll

  Basketball, Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational

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• 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 the Earth. No single space project...will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important...and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Moon, Men

  Special message to joint session of Congress on urgent national needs, 25 May 1961

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• 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

  Dad, Home, Cat

  Song: Cats In The Cradle

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• And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
  Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

  Harry Chapin

  Song, Cat, Boys

  Song: Cat's in the Cradle, 1974

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• The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.

  Lysander Spooner

  Kings, Moon, Men

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• 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

  Father, Moon, Men

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• I look like the man in the moon.

  Martin Freeman

  Moon, Men, Looks

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2005.

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• 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

  Mother, Inspiration, Moon

  1726 History of the Devil, bk.2, ch.6. 0 See also Franklin 335:18.

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• The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. Hugo's father had stepped into a dark room, and on a white screen he had seen a rocket fly right into the eye of the man in the moon. Father said he had never experienced anything like it. It had been like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day.

  Brian Selznick

  Dream, Father, Eye

  Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.88, Scholastic

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