Travel Voyages Quotes & Sayings

So drop the Mr. Rochester-Mr. Darcy-Heathcliff British stuck-uppity and treat her like the treasure she is — Sylvain Reynard

In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships between them for voyages into the void. One hundred and fifty years ago, the possibilities offered by missionary service were limitless and first-rate. Later, Scott and Shackleton turned away droves after filling their crews for their desperate Antarctic voyages. In 1959 ... sailor H.W. Tilman, looking for a crew for a voyage in an old wooden yacht to the Southern Ocean, ran this ad in the London Times: "Hand [man] wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure." Tilman received more replies than he could investigate, one from as far away as Saigon. — Peter Nichols

There are no safe voyages and no safe ports. — Marty Rubin

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. — Israel Shenker

Long voyages often lose themselves.
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You will see. It is difficult even for brothers to travel together on such a voyage. The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all. Listen to the corridos of the country. They will tell you. Then you will see in your own life what is the cost of things. Perhaps it is true that nothing is hidden. Yet many do not wish to see what lies before them in plain sight. You will see. The shape of the road is the road. There is not some other road that wears the shape but only the one. And every voyage begun upon it will be completed. Whether horses are found or not. — Cormac McCarthy

We have trains to hop, voyages to embark on, and rides to hitch. And then there's the great American wild - vanishing but still there - ready to impart its wisdom from an Alaskan peak or a patch of grass growing in a crack of a city sidewalk. And no matter how much sprawl and civilization overtake our wilds, we'll always have the boundless wildlands in ourselves to explore. — Ken Ilgunas

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. — Phillip Adams

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor — Seneca The Younger

There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel. — Lemony Snicket

Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing — Richard Gerber

Me and my sisters were so awful. One nanny, we loved, but we hacked her email and sent her boyfriend lots of weird messages, and we once actually locked her in the toilet, too. — Suki Waterhouse

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one. — Thomas Wolfe

Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. — Bob Wells

To die for the one you loved was an effort too sweet for words. — Karen Blixen

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes. — Marcel Proust

The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both. — James Randi

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. — Charles Simic

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. — Tennessee Williams

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere. — Lord Byron