Quotes About Great Journeys

#1. Great journeys live long in the memory of those who participate in them

John Stein

#2. My family's story isn't special. What's special is the America that makes our story possible. Ours is a nation like no other, a place where great journeys can be made in a single generation. No matter who you are or where you come from, the path is always forward.

Julian Castro

#3. I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.

Penelope Wilton

#4. Occasionally in my travels I meet people who have pushed too far into the nagual. These individuals are not too balanced but they have made great journeys in the unknown.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Change is a journey and the journey is always about change. And if there is no change, why bother with the journey? And the best journeys require lots of space of one sort or another. So for great journeys - just open space.

Harrison Owen

#6. Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Henry Rollins

#7. Do not judge an entire species based on the actions of their worst few. That is the trait of the Genjix. The Prophus choose to look at the best of humanity.

Wesley Chu

#8. Some journeys don't have endings, they lead to new beginnings. These are the journeys that lead to great adventures!

Alex Haditaghi

#9. The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality.

Rob Portman

#10. The CIA's resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves-not polar bears on icebergs.

John Barrasso

#11. All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. Bad people ... are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

Aristotle.

#13. Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

Joachim Du Bellay

#14. God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.

Lauryn Hill

#15. In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up

Charles Dickens

#16. He [Sam] wrote it with great flourishes, his hand making many dizzy elliptical journeys before it settled down to make a elaborate 'E' with a curving tail as long as some prehistoric baboons.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#17. This was the boy I loved. A little bit messy. A little bit ruined. A beautiful disaster. Just like me.

Michelle Hodkin

#18. As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation.

Helen Garner

#19. People are never fair, even when they try to be ... and few are the ones who try.

Orson Scott Card

#20. Life is one of Gods greatest Journeys, But Death is the next great Adventure.

Chris Cole

#21. I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.

Scarlett Johansson

#22. The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

Ethel Mumford

#23. Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Because even though you don't want anyone to own you, it doesn't mean that there is nowhere you belong.

Lene Kaaberbol

#25. Great leaders create memorable journeys

John Stein

#26. Long before haunted houses existed, haunted woods circled the globe. Homer knew it. The Brothers Grimm knew it. In legend, all the great mythic quests of self-discovery begin with the hero entering a dark wood. Some journeys also end there.

Robert Dunbar

#27. China
Whales follow
the whale-roads.
Geese,
roads of magnetized air.
To go great distance,
exactitudes matter.
Yet how often
the heart
that set out for Peru
arrives in China,
Steering hard.
consulting the charts
the whole journey.

Jane Hirshfield

#28. He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.

William Shakespeare

#29. Worn out by suffering, we lie on our great backs, tossing grass up to heaven - as a distraction, not a prayer. That's not humility you see on our long final journeys: it's procrastination. It hurts my heavy body to lie down. - DAN CHIASSON, The Elephant

Jodi Picoult