Quotes About Voyage

John Donne's 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning' concerns a sea voyage, and uses the image of a circle as an antidote to the abyss of loss and separation. He pictures the invisible but precious bonds which link carer and cared-for, lover and beloved in an attachment relationship as slender threads of gold.

We are in the transportation business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

Cherbourg was leaving Liverpool, the ship

White Star liner Megantic

Five months after the disaster, Charles Lauriat wrote a book about his experience, entitled The Lusitania's Last Voyage

the station.

Unmistakable and invulnerable, a floating village in steel, the Lusitania glided by in the night as a giant black shadow cast upon the sea.

Three hours into the voyage Kendall saw two of his passengers lingering by a lifeboat. He knew them to be the Robinsons, father and son, returning to America.

look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion—that you were aboard a ship being propelled far into the bluest reaches of the ocean.

As the Pensacola's twenty-one-man crew readied the ship for its voyage to the city of Pensacola on Florida's Gulf Coast, two men came aboard as Captain Simmons's personal guests: a harbor pilot named R. T. Carroll and Galveston's Pilot Commissioner J. M. O. Menard, from one of the city's oldest families.

Adventure is but a collection of detours.

The idea of a voyage was something crucial for Guy', Alice told me. He'd seen it the way Gypsies do: not so much experiential as ontological. It's not that Gypsies necessarily voyage from place to place as they are voyagers; the voyage is immanent in who they are, in what they do, irrespective of whether they travel or not. Guy had similarly understood life as an ontological voyage. Time moves on, ineluctably, and people are consumed by fire.

The dragon reared her head, breathing in the storm and loving every minute of it. It was the start of a voyage, and a storm at the beginning of a voyage was always a good omen.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

I think if you just travel in general, it allows you to step outside of yourself and whatever you're familiar with.

The tall Khitan lifted his head and gazed at Publio, so that the merchant broke into a profuse sweat. "What do you wish of me?" he stuttered. "A ship," answered the Khitan. "A ship well manned for a long voyage." "For how long a voyage?" stammered Publio, never thinking of refusing. "To the ends of the world, perhaps," answered the Khitan, "or to the molten seas of hell that lie beyond the sunrise.

What a long, strange trip it's been.

I remember reading that the space shuttle uses more fuel during its first three minutes after liftoff than during its entire voyage around the earth

a ship is a habitat before being a means of transport.

women passengers

What matter it how far we go? his scaly friend replied.There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

SPIRITUAL WARRIORS is a terrific voyage. A memorable journey through the light and dark of our lives and ultimately to hope. I loved it.

Life's uncertain voyage.