Top 80 Quotes About Voyages
#1. Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.
E.B. White
#2. We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.
William Taylor
#3. As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.
Harry Johnston
#4. Sometimes it's about the economic situation and sometimes it's about the fear of others. Sometimes it's about protecting the generally accepted values. If you look at history, history is just a succession of people meeting other people, either through commerce, voyages or wars.
Philippe Falardeau
#6. There are no safe voyages and no safe ports.
Marty Rubin
#7. Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
Israel Shenker
#8. If the yacht's sails were wind-tattered, if its polished brass and varnished wood were scarred from a hundred successful voyages, it would have suited him, because character should always come before beauty.
Neal Shusterman
#9. The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
Julien Green
#10. Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This
illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the
world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages,
of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.
Ambrose Bierce
#11. Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
Abraham Cowley
#12. One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
Joseph Jacobs
#13. I read in that Voyages in China that the Chinese say a white man smells like a corpse.
James Joyce
#15. Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. The number of slave voyages included in the database has now risen to thirty-five thousand, accounting for the forced migration of more than twelve million Africans between 1514 and 1866, a million more than were estimated at the time of the conference in 1998.
Bernard Bailyn
#17. If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise Pascal
#18. One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.
George R R Martin
#19. There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now ...
William Shakespeare
#20. For with the removal of all question of merit or payment, the soul is suddenly released for incredible voyages.
G.K. Chesterton
#21. The boat from India was a crowded place; all long sea voyages on boats feel crowded. When you are stuck at sea for weeks there is nowhere to escape from people.
C.S. Woolley
#22. The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.
Qurratulain Hyder
#23. Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#24. 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.
Wyndham Lewis
#25. The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.
Fred Hoyle
#26. Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#27. Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, to achieve such feats, we might not even have to leave the earth. It would suffice to accelerate the sun itself to a very high speed and let it drag all its planets with it.
Fritz Zwicky
#28. Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again to dream of it, torment him with the absurdity of longing for something that he loathes.
Yukio Mishima
#29. What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous.
Thomas Merton
#31. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission ... to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Gene Roddenberry
#32. I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return
Amin Maalouf
#33. Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.
Max Ernst
#34. The great difference between voyages rests not in ships, but in the people you meet on them.
Amelia E. Barr
#35. The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
William Bligh
#36. To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.
Phillip Adams
#37. Voyages to the outer solar system are controlled from a single place on the planet Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Pasadena, California.
Carl Sagan
#38. I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.
Lord Byron
#39. The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart ... To go alone ... into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth
it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.
Thomas Wolfe
#40. You don't read to exercise the mind but to take voyages
John Geddes
#41. He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to offer others, apart from chains, still more chains? Fiction never liberated anyone. No one ever brought anything back from voyages through dream worlds.
Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio
#42. Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
Gabriel Fielding
#43. From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.
Barbara Ascher
#44. 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.
Jacques Vallee
#45. The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.
Marcel Proust
#46. My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.
Jimmy Buffett
#47. To Meath of the pastures,
From wet hills by the sea,
Through Leitrim and Longford,
Go my cattle and me.
Padraic Colum
#48. Everyone knows this.
The voyage into the interior is all that matters,
Whatever your ride.
Charles Wright
#49. The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.
Agatha Christie
#50. Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.
Mel Brooks
#51. Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#52. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
#53. We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.
Gloria Steinem
#54. Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
Charles Baudelaire
#55. In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.
Camille Paglia
#56. Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.
David Doubilet
#57. No matter whose bed you die in
the bed will be yours
for your voyage
onto the surgical andiron
of God.
Anne Sexton
#58. She holds you like a whore in the night, but she'll take your soul and not think twice.
Micheal Rivers
#59. Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!
Terence McKenna
#60. The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.
Susan Sontag
#61. Writing, like life itself,
is a voyage of discovery.
Henry Miller
#62. Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story.
Margiad Evans
#63. So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the passengers and crew of The Black Witch.
Micheal Rivers
#65. A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.
Charles Simic
#66. The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.
Albert Schweitzer
#67. There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.
H.M. Tomlinson
#69. I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.
Lee De Forest
#72. There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.
Thomas Wolfe
#73. We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
Marcel Proust
#75. When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.
Publilius Syrus
#77. A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
Madame De Stael
#78. The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip ...
Timothy Leary
#79. A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.
Dale Carnegie
#80. You go into a book and you're in the dark, really. You go in with a certain fear and trembling. You know one thing. You know you will not be the same person when this voyage is over. But you don't know what's going to happen to you between getting on the boat and stepping off.
James A. Baldwin
