Pilgrim Quotes - Page 5

• On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jesus, Mind, Billy Pilgrim

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Christmas, Bird, Detours

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.37, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Effort, Progress, Obedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Alice! A childish story take,
  And with a gentle hand,
  Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
  In Memory's mystic band,
  Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
  Plucked in far-off land.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Memories, Flower

  Lewis Carroll (2012). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and What the Tortoise Said to Achilles and Other Riddles”, p.10, Graphic Arts Books

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• Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

  Satish Kumar

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heaven, Evening, Sandals

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.340

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• The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Song, Heaven

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Lying, Son

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• We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation and campaigns of assassination. And in the face of ancient divisions, you stood firm to help those Iraqis who put their faith in the future.

  Barack Obama

  War, Campaigns, Division

  Remarks on the End of the War in Iraq, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 14, 2011.

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• On Sherry: The destiny of a thousand generations is concentrated in each drop. If the cares of the world overwhelm you, only taste it, pilgrim, and you will swear that heaven is on earth.

  Pedro Antonio de Alarcon

  Wine, Destiny, Heaven

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• Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth

  Satish Kumar

  Nature, Tourists, Earth

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• And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than fond memories and fast friendships. The enduring qualities of Massachusetts - the common threads woven by the Pilgrim and the Puritan, the fisherman and the farmer, the Yankee and the immigrant - will not be and could not be forgotten in the Nations Executive Mansion. They are an indelible part of my life, my convictions, my view of the past, my hopes for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Lonely, Memories

  Address to the Massachusetts legislature on January 09, 1961. "Congressional Record", Volume 107, Appendix, p. A169, January 10, 1961.

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• My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

  Sean Connery

  Boys, Land, My Boys

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• The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans were talking about things being crap in the 17th and 18th centuries. What Sir Thomas Crapper – complete coincidence – does is not invent the flushing toilet, as many, many people believe, but was a great promoter for it. He ran a business marketing other people's products and that's why his name was on them. When the American soldiers came over in the First World War, they all thought it was hilarious that it said 'crapper' on them.

  Lucy Worsley

  Father, War, Believe

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• My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Sweet, Father

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• We are traveling on with our staff in hand... We are pilgrims bound for the heavenly land.

  Fanny Crosby

  Christian, Hands, Land

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• Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others?

  William E. Simon

  Spiritual, Father, Liberty

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• The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

  John Bunyan

  Nature, Heart, Fancy

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.137

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• On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.

  Sam Keen

  Children, Mean, Men

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• Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay.

  Thomas Campbell

  Brother, Men, Clay

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.80

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• We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it can’t, it weeps.

  John Piper

  Mean, Cynical, Rotting

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• There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.

  James Montgomery

  Lying, Sleep, Calm

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.304

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• Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Butterfly, Dark, Kissing

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.125, Knopf

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• In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Democracy

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

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• My heart can take on any form:
  A meadow for gazelles,
  A cloister for monks,
  For the idols, sacred ground,
  Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim,
  The tables of the Torah,
  The scrolls of the Quran.
  
  My creed is Love;
  Wherever its caravan turns along the way,
  That is my belief,
  My faith.

  Ibn Arabi

  Heart, Idols, Tables

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