Quotes About Itinerant

The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society—a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed. Its constituents are men and women and children of all ages, folks on the dodge from collection agencies, relationships gone sour, the law or the IRS, Ohio winters, the middle-class grind.

**(C)(P) LISTEN! ONE COULD SAY THAT THERE IS REALLY SOMETHING WRONG WITH AMERICA. I HAD ASKED SOME AMERICANS WHY THEY HAVE TO LEAVE AMERICA TO GO SOME PLACE ON-VACATION- TO GET SOME REST? I KEEP GETTING SO MANY DIFFERENT, UNFULFILLED ANSWERS-WHICH STILL AMAZES ME, BUT DON'T BLAME IT ON THE ITINERANT UNFULLFILLED RESTLESS SPIRIT OF HUMANS. IT IS MORE COMPLEX THAN THAT. WHAT SAY YOU? AMERICA! STILL TRYING TO FIND ITSELF.

I go through about 140 cities a year.

It is a miracle that we know anything at all about the man called Jesus of Nazareth. The itinerant preacher wandering from village to village clamoring about the end of the world, a band of ragged followers trailing behind, was a common sight in Jesus's time—so common, in fact, that it had become a kind of caricature among the Roman elite.

Here was the problem with Jack Reacher: he was a bad guy who sometimes did good things. Given his itinerant lifestyle, Will thought of him as an American James Bond—not the Bond from the movies but the Bond from the books who was one level up from a street fighter. There was no M to temper his feralness. Reacher did not have a legal license to kill. Or maim. Or shoot people in their knees, which was a really mean thing to do, even to a stone-cold gangster.

the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

Black and white buffalo pass in and out of red barns, offering free rides to itinerant atoms.

The infant church, in its original nomadic or itinerant state, seems to have been a motley band of pilgrims, in which all sorts of people as to sex, social position, and moral character were united, the bond of union being ardent attachment to the person of Jesus. This church itinerant was not a regularly organized society, of which it was necessary to be a constant member in order to true discipleship.

peripatetic

A tramp is a bum, a parasite, a man that won't work. A hobo is an itinerant laborer who prefers casual freedom to security. He works for his living, but he won't be tied down to one environment.

Dodd was able to point out that no one would have crucified an itinerant preacher who went around encouraging people with general moral principles.

reason Amazon can take on such a slow, inefficient workforce," noted one itinerant worker on her blog, Tales from the Rampage. "Since they are getting us off government assistance for almost three months of the year, we are a tax deduction for them.

Tell me, ' he continued, 'would it be true that you are an itinerant dentist and that you came on a tricycle?' 'It would not, ' I replied. 'On a patent tandem?' 'No.' [...] 'Then maybe you are no ...dentist at all, ' he said, 'but only a man after a dog licence or papers for a bull?' 'I did not say I was a dentist, ' I said sharply, 'and I did not say anything about a bull.

during the nineteenth century, one home missionary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church reported to the general conference in 1844 "that during four years he had covered 300 miles in his itinerant preaching, establishing 47 churches with a total membership of 2,000. He had seven other itinerant preachers working with him, and 27 local preachers had organized 50 Sunday schools with 200 teachers and 2,000 students.

I've always been a bit of a gypsy.

I am such a gypsy.

We are ice and snow, we are that trapped state. We are water falling, itinerant and vague, ever seeking the lowest level, trying to collect and connect. We are vapor, raised against our own devices, made nebulous, blown on whatever wind arises. To start again, glacial or not.

I'm based in San Francisco, although I don't usually stay long in one place because we are always moving, we are always on the road. So most of the time, we stay in hotels.

I was ordained into the ministry through my local church in February of 2000. I had already been doing a lot of speaking. So basically, my vocation in life changed and I went from a professional wrestler to a itinerate preacher.

What is a tramp anyway? Dave explained: A tramp is an itinerant worker. A hobo is an itinerant non-worker. A bum is a non-itinerant non-worker.

My father was an itinerant preacher who traveled the country's heartland preaching from town to town and church to church.

I love writing about people on the road.

I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.

A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat itinerant, can easily make long and interesting journals.