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Quotes About Journeys

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
~ Taylor Swift
But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.
~ Mark Twain
I'm actually more of a cat guy than a dog person because I travel so much. I love cats.
~ Tim Allen
Wie die Winde sind die Möglichkeiten unseres Lebens, und warum wagt man nie, die Segel auszuspannen?
~ Max Frisch
Having reached a point where I was successfully completing a number of desired goals, I was experiencing both a "void" and undergoing the kind of critical self-examination that brought about a crisis in meaning. It was a time for me to re-vision my life and chart new and different journeys. I think it's very hard for successful black women (and black men) to turn away from achievements, high-status positions with visibility, that may no longer be meeting our growth needs.
~ bell hooks
Die Wege in die Andere Welt sind so zahlreich und verschlungen wie die Flüsse und Bäche, die dem Meer entgegenstreben.
~ Bernhard Hennen
I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core.
~ Dries van Noten
He came to see, and I did too, that patriarchy wounds men also, that men have their own journeys to make in order to heal and differentiate themselves from it.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
also learned a model of relating that unwittingly promoted women's psychological dependence on men and male authority. Women's personal journeys, goals, and quests were encouraged only to the extent that they didn't interfere with those of husband or children. A woman's surrender of herself on behalf of the rest of the family was (and often still is) extolled as the highest virtue.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
She looked around and saw thousands of books in rows of shelves. There were posters on the wall and signs pointing to various sections. It was, well, a library. But when she turned to Jasper, she realized he saw something completely different. His gaze was slightly unfocused as if instead of books, he saw journeys and possibilities.
~ Susan Mallery
Let no one who wishes to receive agreeable impressions of American manners, commence their travels in a Mississippi steamboat.
~ Frances Trollope
People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.
~ Haruki Murakami
I think part of my journeys here and the places I was able to be at and the styles of wrestling I was able to experience and the friendships and just the world experience that I garnered before I came here to WWE helped me tremendously when I got here.
~ Samoa Joe
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
~ Walter Dean Myers
From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.
~ Tom Chatfield
What is it about trains that makes food taste so good? Some of my happiest memories are of prolonged lunches between St. Moritz and Zurich, Bordeaux and Paris, and even between Coimbra and Salamanca.
~ Michael Portillo
I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'
~ Autumn Reeser
Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.
~ Richard Rogers
People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.
~ Theresa May
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
~ Stanislav Grof
Szygon understood that he made his unusual journeys under the influence of cosmic and elemental forces, and that train travel was a childish compromise caused by the circumstances of his earthly environment. He realized only too well that if it weren't for the sad fact that he was chained to the Earth and its laws, his travels, casting off the usual pattern and method, would take on an exceedingly more active and beautiful form.
~ Stefan Grabi?ski
There are lots of trips out there. It's even possible to become a conference groupie, going from one seminar to another and being a Beautiful Evolved Human Being until you start making the people around you want to throw up.
~ Michael Crichton
For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.
~ Michael Ondaatje