The best Quotes from From the Earth to the Moon

I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would "bust up" at the very first shot.

I dream with my eyes open.

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning... and let anything better come as a surprise.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert... that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

Why can't you compare Washington State and Florida?
Because it'd be like comparing apples and oranges.

I'm honored that so many Floridians are supporting my efforts to rekindle the American Dream.

"How you gonna get a gun?"
"This is Florida. The God damn state is shaped like a gun!"

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."