Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Alanis Morissette

My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred

Alan Rickman

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Al Stewart

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

Chief Seattle

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Chief Joseph

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

David Sedaris

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

Dave Barry

Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER.

Dave Barry

Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.

Alan Perlis

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Bernie Ecclestone

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

Avril Lavigne

People like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Azita Ghanizada

I learned how to speak English watching television.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

Dan Castellaneta

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

Christopher Walken

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

Christopher Walken

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

Charles Dickens

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Charles Dickens

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Charles Stanley

You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.

Charles Spurgeon

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

Charles Spurgeon

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

Charles Spurgeon

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

Charles Spurgeon

He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.

Charles Spurgeon

Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.

Alan Watts

Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.