quotes about Voyages
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The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.
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My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
-- Carl Sagan -
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Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
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There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures.
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A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.
-- Charles SimicSource : Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.74, Copper Canyon Press
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Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride.
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “Littlefoot: A Poem”, p.80, Macmillan
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For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
-- Christopher ColumbusSource : Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.11
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Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
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Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.
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There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
-- Ella Maillart -
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Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
-- Gabriel Fielding -
Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.
-- Ginger Rogers -
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.
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What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage†is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.
-- Gretel Ehrlich -
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It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.
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There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.
-- H. M. Tomlinson -
We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.
-- Harold BloomSource : Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Permit me voyage, love, into your hands...
-- Hart CraneSource : Hilton Landry, Elaine Landry, Robert J. DeMott, Hart Crane (1973). “A concordance to the poems of Hart Crane”, Scarecrow Pr
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I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.
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There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.
-- Ivan DoigSource : Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
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As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.
-- Jack Kornfield -
It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.
-- Jacqueline KellySource : Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.234, Macmillan
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Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals.
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My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.
-- Jimmy Buffett -
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
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To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
-- Joshua SlocumSource : Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.
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I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.
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A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
-- Maria Mitchell -
Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.
-- Mary ButtsSource : Mary Butts (1992). “The Taverner novels”, McPherson
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set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts
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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.
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Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.
-- Peter Lewis AllenSource : "The wages of sin". Book by Peter Lewis Allen, press.uchicago.edu. 2000.
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Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through.
-- Philip GustonSource : Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press
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When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.
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The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
-- William BlighSource : William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.2, BoD – Books on Demand
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I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.
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From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.
-- Barbara AscherSource : Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, Harpercollins
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To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.
-- Padraic Colum -
Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’ To do with our enterprise? To do with this voyage?’ Perhaps not quite directly.
-- Patrick O'Brian -
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We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.
-- Nainoa Thompson