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Quotes About Journey

Somewhere the Sky touches the Earth, and the name of that place is the End.
~ Anonymous: African
To Noroway, to Noroway,To Noroway o'er the faem;The king's daughter o' Noroway,'Tis thou must bring her hame.
~ Anonymous: Ballads
"I'll rest," said he, "but thou shalt walk";So doth this wandering JewFrom place to place, but cannot restFor seeing countries new.
~ Anonymous: Ballads
O waly, waly, up the bank,And waly, waly, doun the brae,And waly, waly, yon burnside,Where I and my Love wont to gae!
~ Anonymous: Ballads
Anno aetatis suae… [In the year of his age].
~ Anonymous: Latin
Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through hardships].
~ Anonymous: Latin
One flew east, one flew west,One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Tom, Tom, the piper's son,He learned to play when he was young.But all the tune that he could playWas "Over the hills and far away."
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
To live a life through is not like crossing a field.
~ Anonymous: Russian
Then blow ye winds, heigh-ho!A-roving I will go,I'll stay no more on England's shore,To hear the music play.I'm off on the morning trainTo cross the raging main,I'm taking a trip on a Government ship,Ten thousand miles away!
~ Anonymous: Shanties
Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you,Way-hay, you rolling river!Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you,Ha-ha, we're bound away,'Cross the wide Missouri!
~ Anonymous: Shanties
There were two lofty ships, from old England they set sail,Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we!…Cruising down along the shores of High Barbaree!
~ Anonymous: Shanties
Good-bye, fare you well!We're homeward bound for New York town,Hurrah, my boys, we're homeward bound!
~ Anonymous: Shanties
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
~ Ansel Adams
Every experience is a form of exploration.
~ Ansel Adams
No hay en él sitio alguno que no te vea a ti. Tienes que cambiar tu vida».
~ Anselm Grün
O médico lembrou-se de uma frase de Scott Fitzgerald, tripulante aflito do barco em que seguiam, deixado em terra numa viagem anterior, de coração exausto alimentado pelo oxigénio amargo do álcool: na noite mais escura da alma são sempre três horas da manhã.
~ António Lobo Antunes
Estreita é do prazer na vida a taça: Largo, como o oceano é largo e fundo, E como ele em venturas infecundo, O cális amargoso da desgraça. E contudo nossa alma, quando passa incerta peregrina, pelo mundo, Prazer só pede à vida, amor fecundo, É com essa esperança que se abraça.
~ Antero de Quental
Maybe that's enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
~ Anthony Bourdain
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
~ Anthony Bourdain
As I walked towards travel, that illusion of liberation, I strangely felt myself walking back into childhood.
~ Anthony Burgess
You see, love isn't just something you feel. Love is something you become. It's like - going to a new country, and realizing that you never particularly liked the place you left behind. It's like a sort of tingling and - oh, I don't know - when she smiles I just want to start clapping or something.
~ Anthony Capella