Traveler Quotes - Page 14

• Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

  Dorothy Gambrell

  Needs, Time Travel, Conventions

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• And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Thoughtful, Breathing

  'She was a phantom of delight' (1807)

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• That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Thinking, Gone

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.406

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• Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Journey, Should

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.86

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• The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Agency, Encounters

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.91, Vintage

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• In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

  Loren Eiseley

  Voice, Devil, Desert

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.62, Library of America

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• As we meet and touch, each day, The many travelers on our way, Let every such brief contact be A glorious, helpful minister.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Ministry, Each Day, Way

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• Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Beach, Doctors, People

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• The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Men, Practice

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Circles, Envy, Bitter

  "Night Lights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark". Book by Phyllis Grissim-Theroux, 1987.

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• These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Spring, Intelligent, Lovely

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• I am very little of a traveler.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Littles

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau ....”

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• On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a continual combat, but one in which Jesus Christ fights for us. We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home.

  Francois Fenelon

  Jesus, Home, Fighting

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

  Frederick Marryat

  Horse, Distance, Pride

  Frederick Marryat (1897*). “Works of Captain Marryat: With Illustrations”

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• Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Country, Travel, Home

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “The Sympaty of Religions”, p.16

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• With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Travel, Inheritance

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.172

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• Travelers must be content.

  William Shakespeare

  Travel

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.469

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• Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

  William Shakespeare

  Travel, Lying, Home

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• For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.

  Louis J. Halle

  Country, Memorial, Doe

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• We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Lying, Vanity

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• The Goddess is the Encircler, the Ground of Being; the God is That-Which-Is-Brought-Forth, her mirror image, her other pole. She is the earth; He is the grain. She is the all encompassing sky; He is the sun, her fireball. She is the Wheel; He is the traveler. He is the sacrifice of life to death that life may go on. She is the Mother and Destroyer; He is all that is born and is destroyed.

  Starhawk

  Mother, Sacrifice, Sky

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• Spacemen die if they stay in one place.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Astronaut, Space Travel, Ifs

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.146, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought.

  Eric Frank Russell

  Hazards, Infinite, Astronaut

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• Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Space, Elbows

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.58, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• David will never go to space again. I'm glad.What did it gain the McQuarries? What has it ever gained men? Have men ever brought back more happiness from the stars? Will they ever?

  Leigh Brackett

  Stars, Men, Space

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