Compostela Quotes

#1. summer of 2011, when the first call to walk the Camino Santiago de Compostela had tugged at my soul, I would not have known this was my why. A tug so fierce I had no choice but to follow, the next years would guide me to

Katharine Elliott

#2. In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj.

Robyn Davidson

#3. My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery.

Paulo Coelho

#4. I need a bone saw - for the meatloaf I made for you, which looks suspiciously like a brick. The gravy is a blanket.

Jarod Kintz

#5. Who's they?" Ozzie asked. The guy's wild blond hair and Star Trek T-shirt - it read I beat the Kobayashi Maru - shouted of his secure position in the upper echelons of Geekdom as loudly as the three microsized laptops open in front of him. "Official

Julie Ann Walker

#6. I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out.

Larry Miller

#7. 17The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.

Anonymous

#8. Miss Maudie settled her bridgework. "You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist - " "That's what you are, ain't it?" "My shell's not that hard, child. I'm just a Baptist." "Don't you all believe in foot-washing?" "We do. At home in the bathtub." "But we can't have communion with you all -

Harper Lee

#9. A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

Layne Staley

#10. She felt something missing in her soul. It wasn't until she landed in Edinburgh that she realized that missing piece was the wild, mystical land.

Donna Grant

#11. A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars

Walt Whitman

#12. My walk is consistently made fun of.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#13. There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot.

Edwin Mullins

#14. Lol! You are awesome,lovesome and winsome; you are Too-Much.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#15. It felt like a cemetery, but I didn't see myself returning to visit any time soon.

Trish Marie Dawson