Quotes About Voyaging

#1. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. It is in the wilderness that you really learn who you are.

Steven Callahan

#2. Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.

Edmund Phelps

#3. Voyaging great distances
through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains
is all about finding ourselves.

Tim Lebbon

#4. [W]omen under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic base reversal of the very be-ing of Voyaging/Spiraling women, when we direct our own Crafts/Vessels we become reversers of that deadly reversal.

Mary Daly

#5. A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought ... alone.

Steve Wozniak

#6. Whoever wishes to remember must not stay in one place, waiting for the memories to come of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the immense world, and it takes voyaging to find them and make them leave their refuge.

Milan Kundera

#7. I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.

David Crosby

#8. The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.

Steven Callahan

#9. I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

Annie Hill

#10. The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

J.B. Priestley

#13. Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

Euripides

#14. For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time

Henry Beston

#15. I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

George R R Martin

#16. What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.

Terence McKenna

#17. Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

Michel Serres

#18. In a love affair, most seek an eternal homeland. Others, but very few, eternal voyaging. These latter are melancholics, for whom contact with mother earth is to be shunned. They seek the person who will keep far from them the homeland's sadness. To that person, they remain faithful.

Walter Benjamin

#19. It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

Ehud Olmert

#20. The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy,

George R R Martin

#21. I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

Ezra Pound

#22. Borrowing a line from Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," Watts dubbed Ritter the Junkyard Dog - and, ever the literalist, gave him a dog collar and junk cart.

David Shoemaker

#23. Monsters are entirely mythological, sir, like spirits, werebeasts, and competent bureaucrats.

George R R Martin

#24. The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#25. You never chased a sentient into his own environment unless you absolutely had to and you had sufficient forces to handle ten times the force you could see. Break that rule at your peril, as the poor screaming bastard in the water was now learning.

Evan Currie

#26. Famous people steal my quotes all of the time without knowing; none of it is ever very interesting though.

Robert DeCoteau

#27. Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

S.M. Stirling

#28. Today, we need people who are capable of creative thinking and independent decision-making.

Mikael Kamber

#29. Never start a business just to 'make money'. Start a business to make a difference.

Marie Forleo