44 Travel and Voyage Quotes

33 Travel and 11 Voyage Quotes to Wet your Travel Appetite

Presented by Charles Harmon

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A young sailor boy came to see me today. 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

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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. – Adelbert von Chamisso

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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. – Michael Tilson Thomas

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As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary. – Junipero Serra

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Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best. – Thomas Wolfe

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Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. – Giotto di Bondone

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For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make. – Edward Kennedy

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For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom. – Ernest Lawrence

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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 Columbus

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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. – Joachim du Bellay

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I am a voyager – and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home. – Emmanuelle Beart

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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. – Thomas Hobbes

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I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that. – William Kidd

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I mean this record does not sound like somebody’s maiden voyage. – George Duke

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If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea. – Joshua Slocum

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It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. – Frederick Sanger

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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. – George William Curtis

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Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same ‘Love Boat’ voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. – James Wolcott

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My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding. – Bill Toomey

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My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop – not one drop! – Joshua Slocum

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Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. – William Gurnall

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Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long. – Christopher Columbus

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The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done. – Zebulon Pike

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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 Bligh

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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. – Agnes de Mille

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There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence. – Donald Justice

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There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. – Ella Maillart

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There’s really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character. – Richard Gere

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To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was. – Mike Wallace

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Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston. – Joshua Slocum

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We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ. – John Fiske

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What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire – the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. – Ellen Ochoa

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What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. – Norman Cousins

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11 Good Fortune Quotes and Quotations

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I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat. – Leonard Maltin

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At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations. – Amar Bose

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Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I’ve consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life – and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it! – Patrick Duffy

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I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said ‘Success is primarily luck anyway.’ And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant – so who am I to argue with him! – George Kennedy

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It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. – Martin Lewis Perl

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One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I’ve had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I’ve brought readers to my dad’s work. I can’t tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father’s work was masterful. – Andre Dubus III

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Religions tend to disappear with man’s good fortune. – Raymond Queneau

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There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college. – Dante Hall

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These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn. – Nelson A. Miles

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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it’s like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically. – Jackie DeShannon

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Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune! – Robert Ley

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