Traveling Quotes
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What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
— The Quarterly Review, March, 1825.
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
Norman Kingsley Mailer— 1963 The Presidential Papers, preface.
Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.
Miguel de Cervantes— Ch. 6. (Part II (1615))
Whilst traveling through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. Had to live on food and water for several days.
w. c. fields— My Little Chickadee (1940)
The King in a carriage may ride,And the Beggar may crawl at his side;But in the general race,They are traveling all the same pace.
Edward Fitzgerald— Chronomoros. In Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald (1889), pg. 461.
Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave---that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium---or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.
lawrence m. krauss— The Physics of Star Trek, HarperPerennial edition (1996), p. 17.
We joined long wagon trains moving south; we met hundreds of wagons going north; the roads east and west were crawling lines of families traveling under canvas, looking for work, for another foothold somewhere on the land.... The country was ruined, the whole world was ruined; nothing like this had ever happened before. There was no hope, but everyone felt the courage of despair.
rose wilder lane— Written in 1935, recalling her family’s migration from drought-stricken South Dakota to the Missouri Ozarks in 1894; the 650-mile trip had taken them six weeks.
— As quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 1, by William V. Holtz (1993)
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
norman mailer— Preface (The Presidential Papers (1963))
While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.
eugene j. martin— Cellar Door, Spring 1985, Vol. 12(2), p. 50.
I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.
loreena mckennitt— Website notes to The Mask And Mirror
Before the days of television and mass media, the folksinger was often a traveling newspaper spreading tales through music. There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
phil ochs— Introduction to "(The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of) Santo Domingo," Phil Ochs in Concert (1966)
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
— The Quarterly Review, March, 1825.
Sometimes it felt to him as though he’s spent most of his life traveling, and never quite got to anywhere that mattered. Then again, that might be as good a description of what life was supposed to be as anyone ever thought of. The only real destination was death, and our lives consisted of finding the most circuitous and pleasant path to get there.
orson scott card— Chapter 7 “Errand Boy” (p. 136)
No matter how far apart we are, don't forget that we're still under the same sky, both traveling to the place we once dreamed of.
ayumi hamasaki— Daybreak
In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free.
ben harper— One Road to Freedom
We lived like that “Happy Family“ you sometimes see in traveling zoos: a lion caged with a lamb. It is a startling exhibit but the lamb has to be replaced frequently.
robert a. heinlein— Chapter 7 (Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958))
To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you’re traveling.
Edward Hopper— 'Edward Hopper in Saõ Paulo', William C. Seitz, Smithsonian Press, Washington D.C., 1969
I’m a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let’s face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn’t that why we go on vacations?
jim starlin— Undated comment at his official site.
Yes, [I spent] two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve -- no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!"
ben stein— YouTube video. Fox News: Intelligent Journey -- Stein's New Documentary (14 April 2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
— Clarence Thomas, in "Headline from History – October 12th – The Mathew Shepard Story".
Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly coming and seismologists are fast learning to read them.
— Reginald Aldworth Daly in “Our Mobile Earth” Chapter I, p.5 quoted in : Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither “Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations”, p.588
She wanted him to notice her so much.
Ann Brashares— The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005, pg. 143)
She said it took her 13 years to complete the OT VII level, traveling to Clearwater every six months, often spending $7,865 for intensive auditing sessions. As an OT VIII, she said she spent $16,385 for one 12½ hour, intensive auditing program. "And it didn't resolve the issue, which I was promised it was going to," she said.
— Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin (December 31, 2009). "Three of Scientology's elite parishioners keep faith, but leave the church". St. Petersburg Times (Florida: www.tampabay.com). Retrieved on October 18, 2012.
traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy.
Han Solo— Played by Harrison Ford in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), talking to Luke Skywalker.
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep ; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling (31 August 2009), p.9
traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
— Amos Bronson Alcott, Table-Talk, Traveling.
It [traveling to Mars] is important for our future. If the dinosaurs had a space program, they'd still be here.
— Ronald John Garan, Jr. in a Reddit IAmA.
