Quotes About Journey

Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

Bridgeport? Said I. Camelot, Said he.

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.

The nomadic instinct is a human instinct;

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it.

We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

There is no easy or quick plan to happiness, there is no single spot where you can start. Where you are right now is the best place to begin.

One lives to find out.

The first most important day of you life is the day you were born. The second is when you discover why.

I 'uz mos' to de foot er de islan' b'fo' I found' a good place. I went into de woods en jedged I wouldn' fool wid raffs no mo', long as dey move de lantern roun' so. I had my pipe en a plug er dog-leg, en some matches in my cap, en dey warn't wet, so I 'uz all right.

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes

B Y AND BY, WHEN WE GOT UP, WE TURNED OVER THE TRUCK THE GANG had stole off of the wreck, and found boots, and blankets, and clothes, and all sorts of other things, and a lot of books, and a spyglass, and three boxes of seegars.

But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody.

ferry landing, found

gone, you see, yet finding

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born an the day you find out why.

Dans vingt ans, vous serez plus déçu par les choses que vous n'avez pas faites que par celles que vous avez faites. Alors sortez des sentiers battus. Mettez les voiles. Explorez. Rêvez. Découvrez.