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To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up. To want a life with only half of these things in it is to want half a life, shutting the other half away where it will not interfere with one's bright fantasies of the way things ought to be.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
In bed that night with the lights out and the cool room swimming with moonlight, Anthony lay awake and played with every minute of the day like a child playing in turn with each one of a pile of long-wanted Christmas toys.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
At eleven she sat with Dick and the Norths at a houseboat café just opened on the Seine. The river shimmered with lights from the bridges and cradled many cold moons.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight,And dance by the light of the moon?
- Anonymous
This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs and crimson shadows, laments and rivers of martyrs - what had it come to at last? When the waves receded, the shores of Time would spread out there clean, empty, shining with infinite grains of memory and little else.
- Frank Herbert
The mouth snaked toward the narrow crack where Paul and Jessica huddled. Cinnamon yelled in their nostrils. Moonlight flashed from crystal teeth.
- Frank Herbert
Those who see the nightly splendor of the moon are possessed by perverse ingratitude if they do not recognize the goodness of God.
- John Calvin
The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.
- DL Moody
Therefore, let the moon shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty-mountain winds be free to blow against thee.
- William Wordsworth
Go out of the house to see the moon, and' t is mere tinsel; {it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson