Quotes About Journeys

The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.

Vielleicht hängt es tatsächlich mit diesen frühen Fahrten, diesem ständigen Unterwegssein zusammen, daß ich mich später immer, wenn ich unterwegs war, eher zuhause fühlte, als wenn ich irgendwo blieb und mich einzurichten versuchte.

I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest.

There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything.

De toutes les villes du monde. de toutes les patries intimes qu'un homme cherche à mériter au cours de ses voyages, Genève me semble la plus propice au bonheur.

Most journeys in all of the world start not with bright expectations, a sense of adventure or a bucket and spade, but an empty stomach.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you're aware of the pretty, you're not going to dig into the mess.

You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern Fact, the sad self, unrelenting identical that I fled from.

One's grand flights, one's Sunday baths,One's tootings at the weddings of the soulOccur as they occur.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Places, like people, have their beginnings and have also their endings.

the greatest journeys of our lives begin so simply that we don't even know we've embarked on them until we're well down the road looking back.

Master your mind and you will master your life opening it up to endless journeys to conquer

I don't like to see things done badly on either. At the moment, I am tired of journeys. It is time I arrived somewhere.

I'm taken over by this trunk. I'm practically living inside it. When I read the journals I feel as if I'm there, a hundred years ago. I'm putting together the whole picture and I know everything that happened and wasn't written down - Amal, p. 133

Maybe we are all Beths, boarding other people's life journeys, or letting them hop aboard ours. For a while we ride together. A few minutes, a few miles. Companions on the road, sharing our air and our view, our feet swaying to the same beat. Then you get off at your stop, or I get off at mine. Unless we decide to stay on longer together. p 251

The taiga provides wonderful opportunities for truly long-distance expeditions into areas that are incredibly remote from civilisation. The spiritual reward of such journeys can prove to be transcendental,

Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.

When I'm an old dude in a rocking chair, I'll have these great war stories.