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Quotes About Voyage

At this moment she was remembering the voyage she had just made from Bombay with her father, Captain Crewe. She was thinking of the big ship, of the Lascars passing silently to and fro on it, of the children playing about on the hot deck, and of some young officers' wives who used to try to make her talk to them and laugh at the things she said.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Nice lines," commented Joe. "Pass close to her, will you, Frank?" Quietly, with her engine throttled down, the motorboat drew abreast of the larger vessel. It was now dusk and a light shone in her cabin from which came the sound of activity. Frank gazed in admiration at the tall masts and shipshape rigging.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
I was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships - Cussler at the bridge.
~ Clive Cussler
Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
~ Gene Tierney
This life is a dream, my son. For each of us. But, within that dream, we still must act in a way that pleases the Lord, so that, when we awaken beyond the river of death, we shall be rewarded with the peace of His presence. Let the light of goodness guide you in everything you do. Make your difficult voyage the walk of love, and God shall give you an interior peace while you live, and welcome you to eternal peace when your life is finished.
~ Roland Merullo
Let the light of goodness guide you in everything you do. Make your difficult voyage the walk of love, and God shall give you an interior peace while you live, and welcome you to eternal peace when your life is finished.
~ Roland Merullo
La route est plus large que longue.
~ Roland Penrose
the boat in
~ Luanne Rice
What's a Sinbad?
~ Maeve Binchy
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
~ John Ruskin
Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.
~ Samuel Johnson
APLUSTRE  (APLU'STRE)   n.s.[Latin.]The ancient ensign carried in sea vessels. The one holds a sword in her hand, to represent the Iliad, as the other has an aplustre, to represent the Odyssey, or voyage of Ulysses.Addison.
~ Samuel Johnson
This is what I like about life at sea. It's one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes.
~ Gideon Defoe
Life is a journey through a foreign land.
~ O.R. Melling
For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
~ Edward Kennedy
When a voyager begins a journey, he prepares his ship, decides upon his course and sets sail. What else can he do? But he cannot know the outcome – what storms may arise, what new lands he may find, or whether or not he will return. That is destiny, and you must accept it. Never think you can escape destiny.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
~ Aphra Behn
I travel quite a bit.
~ Sharmila Tagore
Life is a journey so everyone is a tourist
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It was an absurd journey.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
trading expedition
~ Gail Carson Levine
Most émigrés arrived at Ellis Island in New York, invariably confused and exhausted from an unpleasant and dangerous voyage. Health inspectors checked every immigrant, and while the inspections were not particularly rigid, people were routinely refused entry. Often it was a child, leaving the mother with a sort of Sophie's choice—whether to go back to Europe with the rejected son or daughter or stay with her husband and other children.
~ Gail Collins