Quotes About Journey

I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

Forty-four years ago

The Owl and the Pussycat went to seaIn a beautiful pea-green boat,They took some honey, and plenty of money,Wrapped up in a five-pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above,And sang to a small guitar,"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are."

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat...

The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. . . They dined on mince and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon.

They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea!

The search for Eden always ends in tears.

It is as if we were to start hacking a path through the Amazon forest. By the time we have proceeded a hundred yards, the undergrowth takes over again.

life is a process not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

his original manuscript of Cotton Comes to Harlem. Unfortunately, he left it behind on his return journey at the Athens

He knows not where he's going, For the ocean will decide, Its not the destination, It's the glory of the ride

What matters the most is that you live your own story to the fullest and that you tell it well. Be off now. The world awaits you

For each of us, life is a story...What matters most is that you live your own story to the fullest and that you tell it well.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

Life is like reading a novel or running a marathon. It's not so much about reaching a goal but rather about the journey itself and the experiences along the way

Life is like reading a novel or running a marathon. It's not so much about reaching a goal but rather about the journey itself and the experiences along the way. As Benjamin Franklin famously said, "Time is the stuff life is made of," and how you spend it makes all the difference.

The longing for odysseys and faraway adventure is in our genes.

When a voyager begins a journey, he prepares his ship, decides upon his course and sets sail. What else can he do? But he cannot know the outcome – what storms may arise, what new lands he may find, or whether or not he will return. That is destiny, and you must accept it. Never think you can escape destiny.

Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded by temporary blindness, Patrick wondered, as he walked down the corridor in the wrong direction.

Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.

and I rose up, and knew that I was tired, and continued my journey

Roads go on While we forget, and are Forgotten like a star That shoots and is gone.

But it is hard to make anything like a truce between these two incompatible desires, the one for going on and on over the earth, the other that would settle for ever, in one place as in a grave and have nothing to do with change. Suppose a man to receive notice of death, it would be hard to decide whether to walk or sail until the end, seeing no man, or none but strangers; or to sit - alone - and by thinking or not thinking to make the change to come as little as is permitted. (pp 161)