Top 111 Journeys Quotes

My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour’s journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read – it was long before TV, remember!

If you are a fan of my BBC series ‘Great Continental Railway Journeys,’ you’ll probably not be surprised to learn that one of my great aspirations is to travel on Egypt’s railways.

I want us to all look at ourselves and look at our stories. It doesn’t matter where you come from or what journeys you’ve taken. Your stories matter, and they’re powerful.

Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little piano, which they trudged around on the back of a lorry, hoping it would survive the journeys.

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don’t be discouraged that my own journey hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

We’re put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they’re going to travel.

I’ve always been a Marvel fan. As a kid, I would pick up a two-foot stack of comics and read them in the back of my dad’s car on long journeys across the States. That’s how I used to make friends – I’d meet up with other kids, and we’d swap comics.

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel – for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

If people didn’t read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.

You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I’d meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.

My life is longer because of the journeys I have taken.

My husband and I have enjoyed many summer holidays on the Continent, and many people say that their most memorable trips have been the journeys made on the spur of the moment.

I think we all follow our destiny, we all have karma, we all have certain life paths and life journeys that we have to take.

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you’re able to grasp what things mean.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

During the season, the teams play every third day. That’s a huge workload with some long journeys. I think, in football, we need more time to rest and recover.

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it’s like being unplugged from the earth.

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it’s like being unplugged from the earth.

I relate to Nora’s transformation in Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House,’ and I also relate to both sisters’ journeys in John Madden’s film ‘Proof.’

I’m a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I’m looking for box sets that I can put on my computer to pass the time on train journeys. I have far too much free time for an adult.

I’m so interested in people’s journeys and what makes them tick, the movers and shakers.

I was introduced to the church through my parents but I had to struggle and find it on my own. In the end I learned much of my faith and found much of my strength through watching my father’s and mother’s journeys.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.

Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little piano, which they trudged around on the back of a lorry, hoping it would survive the journeys.

I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me, it wasn’t, like, a negative thing. And what I’ve discovered is, for a lot of people, it is. But I think knowing history, liking to talk about ideas – like, I just genuinely like to geek out and go on these intellectual thought journeys.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they’re of journeys. Whether it’s ‘Don Quixote’ or ‘Ulysses,’ there’s always this sense of a quest – of a person going away to be tested, and coming back.

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel – for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.

I think we all follow our destiny, we all have karma, we all have certain life paths and life journeys that we have to take.

I am not into self-exploration. My family would lose their eyes in the backs of their heads if people talked about personal journeys or finding oneself.

I’m surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.

I’m very interested in cinema that explores emotional journeys and where you can use everything at your disposal cinematically to locate you inside someone’s head and their emotional landscape.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

I love touring. Not just the shows, I love hotels. I love motorway services at three o’clock in the morning. I like long car journeys, so I like all the trimmings basically.

I can’t selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.

I make good music for long journeys.

Comparing between siblings is something I don’t like and don’t do at all. I don’t believe in comparisons. We all have our own journeys and we enjoy each other’s success as much as ours.

Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast panoramas, a whole diaspora I’d never imagined. The place I live in tends to be manageably small, a few familiar journeys and destinations.

What gets us excited about any movie is the social relevance and the character themes and the character journeys and like the adventure story.

I’ve got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It’s what I’ve been elected by God to do.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

For years, I meant to read ‘Arabian Sands’, Wilfred Thesiger’s account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia’s Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing.

My upbringing was faith-based, but we believed you should love all others as you want to be loved, because everyone should be treated equally. That’s helped me have an understanding of people on different journeys and in different walks of life. At the end of the day, we’re all the same, because we all want to be loved.

It’s so easy to get whisked away in the hubbub of friends, work and busy-ness, but we need to take the time to be still and become aware of ourselves. The small things. The fact that we’re still breathing. Our ability to move. The presence of love around and in us. Our strengths. Our opportunities. Our journeys.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.