Backpacking Backpacker Quotes & Sayings

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin. — Andrew Bird

A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game. — Mike Lupica

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory. — Lord Kelvin

We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others. — Chris Matakas

Happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired. — George Eliot

He lives who dies to win a lasting name. — Henry Drummond

...That's the difference between backpackers and holiday makers. The former can't help but invite hassle whilst the latter pay to escape it. — Harry Whitewolf

We don't have to look like everyone else...and act like everyone else. We've got a choice. We can grow up any way we want...It's about becoming what I want to become, not what some surgical committee thinks I should. — Scott Westerfeld

I'm sometimes mistaken as the wife of the chairman. I just laugh it off. — Patricia A. Woertz

If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking. — Cheryl Strayed

Trees have roots, Jews have legs. — Isaac Deutscher

Faith's way of walking is to cast all care upon the Lord, and then to anticipate good results from the worst calamities. Like Gideon's men, she does not fret over the broken pitcher, but rejoices that the lamp blazes forth the more. Out of the rough oyster-shell of difficulty she extracts the rare pearl of honor, and from the deep ocean-caves of distress she uplifts the priceless coral of experience. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women, it is a very damning knowledge to be portrayed as curious and careless seductresses. — Gioconda Belli

In heaven..we will not longer cry, feel sad, or face death ... Our bodies will be perfect, locked into eternal youth ... ageless. — Paul P. Enns

White shouldn't be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn't even be a default. — Becky Albertalli