Quotes About Voyage

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

IN 1493, WHEN COLUMBUS returned from his unimaginable voyage, a Spanish-born pope granted all of the lands on the other side of the ocean, everything west of a line of longitude some three hundred miles west of Cape Verde, to Spain, and granted what lay east of that line, western Africa, to Portugal, the pope claiming the authority to divvy up lands inhabited by tens of millions of people as if he were the god of Genesis.

Nao de la China, these ships were called, because even though they sailed from Manila, most of their cargo originated in China. They left in a fleet of three for this treacherous nine-thousand mile voyage, now they were but one. What happened to the others the crew on San Carlos would never know.

For are we not, all of us, wand'rers and strangers; and do we not, all of us, travel in danger or voyage uncharted seas?

I seem to be a ship that is sailing out of my own life.

A ship may seem to be an object whose purpose is to sail, but no, its purpose is to reach a port.

Argonotlar, mühim olan yaÅŸamak deÄŸil, denizlere aç?lmak, derlermiÅŸ. Marazi bir duyarl??? olan Argonotlar olarak, biz de diyelim ki hissetmektir mühim olan, yaÅŸamak deÄŸil.

They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

Every construction is temporary, including the fire altar. It is not a fixed object, but a vehicle. Once the voyage is complete, the vehicle can be destroyed. Thus the Vedic ritualists did not develop the idea of the temple. If such care was given to constructing a bird, it was to make it fly. What remained on earth was an inert shell of dust, dry mud, and bricks. It could be left behind, like a carcass.

I have to find a boat. Somehow.

across the blacktop

I'm glad I made the trip.

For me, the hero's journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero's journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.

A dark-skinned young woman sat on the roof of the aftcastle, one leg swinging as she watched the new slaves shuffle across.

Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.

He learned to read the ocean by a cupful. He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as the destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon: they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.

One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever-and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.

I saw three ships come sailing by,Come sailing by, come sailing by,I saw three ships come sailing by,On New Year's Day in the morning.

Boats motor back and forth, unzipping the water.

for that Ghast ship