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Quotes About Transition

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.
~ Mordecai Richler
When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.
~ Erma Bombeck
Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
~ Lord Byron
People move around so much in the world, things get lost.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
I had no problem going into retirement mode, ... I do what other retired guys do. I putter around the house and travel.
~ Drew Carey
When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
~ Francis Bacon
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
~ Jessica Mitford
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
~ Hortense Calisher
People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.
~ Adam Ross
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
~ Alain de Botton
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
~ Bion of Borysthenes
It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.
~ Bill Vaughan
... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
~ Cormac McCarthy
One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.
~ Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
What matter it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied."There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
~ Lewis Carroll
Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket.
~ Groucho Marx
I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
~ Nargis Fakhri
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
~ Rumi
Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.
~ Nicole Williams
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
~ John Muir
David Nugent tore up the Championship but he's gone to Portsmouth and he's a fish up a tree
~ Paul Merson