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Quotes About Wandered

Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Walt Garrity stands beside them like a tired cowboy who mistakenly wandered into the painting and can't find his way out.
~ Greg Iles
Customers wandered from book to book like honeybees over flowering sage.
~ Shannon Hale
When the Penguins arrived on Sunday from Boston, he wandered around Times Square with some of his teammates. He couldn't get over the lights and noise that never ceased. "It's a lot bigger than Cole Harbour," he said.
~ Shawna Richer
In the flickering lamplight, they wandered down the rows of soldiers. No two soldiers had the same nose, the same eyes, or the same mouth. "Oh, man. No wonder so many people had to work on this tomb," said Jack.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered so restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly, if I except some bat, or frogs, whose harsh and interrupted croaking was heard only when I approached the shore - often, I say, was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forever.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When the denizens of those ancient societies wandered carelessly down the wrong path, they ended up enslaved and miserable—sometimes for centuries—when they were not obliterated completely
~ Jordan B. Peterson
They were obviously Americans, I could hear their voices as the party wandered around our tomb; to judge by the voices, they might have been stenographers from Cleveland. "Oh, isn't it lovely?" "Oh, is this the Campagna?" "Oh, how lovely it is here!
~ Max Frisch
There is respect for a heart like yours, and if its beating stop, the spirit lives to guard the ways you wandered.
~ Beryl Markham
Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
We figure he must have let him out. The perpetrator, I mean. He's blind and we figure he just wandered off and maybe got run over. The perpetrator. No, the dog.
~ Michael Chabon
The Baroness found it amusing to go to tea; she dressed as if for dinner. The tea-table offered an anomalous and picturesque repast; and on leaving it they all sat and talked in the large piazza, or wandered about the garden in the starlight.
~ Henry James
It all left her, as she wandered off, with the strangest of impressions – the sense, forced upon her as never yet, of an appeal, a positive confidence, from the four pairs of eyes, that was deeper than any negation and that seemed to speak on the part of each for some relation to be contrived by her, a relation with herself, which would spare the individual the danger, the actual present strain, of the relation with the others. They
~ Henry James
wandered. Such has been my common
~ Brother Lawrence
On my first evening in the back country, I skipped down the porch steps of the farmhouse-leaving my father inside and the radio playing and my small suitcase decorated with neon flower stickers unpacked-and wandered towards the upside-down school bus I'd spied from an upstairs window.
~ Mitch Cullin
We have wandered so far from fundamental spiritual knowledge in our culture that literally tens of millions of people—many of whom have long-term ties with the Christian church—have no clue how to even describe a true spiritual experience.
~ George Barna
I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal.
~ Mike Birbiglia
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness, as vast, as intricate, and shadowy as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I wandered all these years among A world of women, seeking you.
~ Jack London
But always when I was without a book, my soul would at once become disturbed, and my thoughts wandered. As I read, I began to call them together again and, as it were, laid a bait for my soul
~ Teresa of Avila
They feared the giants instead of God. They focused on the problems instead of the promises. They saw walled cities instead of the will of God. And because they missed what the Spirit was saying, they wandered in the desert 40 years. They died there and their bones bleached in the wilderness.
~ Larry Lea
[H]is gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.
~ Charles Dickens
He drifted, dreamed; and dreamed some more.
~ Thomas Tryon
If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kids wandered around. Nobody knew what you were doing.
~ Caroline Leavitt