Voyages Quotes - Page 3

• Cada cuadro es un viaje a un puerto sagrado.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Sacred, Spirit, Painting

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• What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Motivational, Perseverance, Discovery

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• Hay un tiempo en los asuntos de los hombres, Que, tomado en la inundación, conduce a la fortuna.

  William Shakespeare

  Cambio, Tomado, Oportunidad

  Julio César' (1599) acto 4, esc. 3, l. 215

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• Todos los que alcanzan el éxito en una gran empresa, resuelven cada problema tal y como se les planteó. Se ayudaron a sí mismos. Y se ayudaron a través de poderes conocidos y desconocidos para ellos en el momento en que emprendieron su viaje. Siguen adelante a pesar de los obstáculos que encuentran.

  W. Clement Stone

  Motivación, Éxito, Tiempo

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• De pronto, el prolongado aullido de la bocina de un barco se coló por la ventana abierta e inundó la penumbra de la habitación: un grito de dolor sin límites, oscuro y exigente; negro como el carbón y glabro como el lomo de una ballena y cargado con todas las pasiones de las mareas, el recuerdo de viajes incontables, las alegrías, las humillaciones: el mar gritaba.

  Yukio Mishima

  Recuerdos, Duelo, Pasión

  "El marinero que perdió la gracia del mar".

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• The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

  Julien Green

  Heart, Men, Discovery

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• What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Eye, Moon, Journey

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

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• Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.

  Cristóbal Colón

  Long, People, Complaining

  Reported in Bartolome de las Casas, Journal of the First Voyage, 10 Oct. 1492 (translation by Samuel Eliot Morison)

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• Con este fin, decidí llevar un registro del viaje y anotar puntualmente todo lo que hiciéramos o viéramos día a día, como se verá más adelante.

  Cristóbal Colón

  Writing, Journey, Purpose

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.11

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• Navegó este día diecinueve leguas, y determinó contar menos que el número verdadero, para que la tripulación no se desanimara si el viaje resultaba largo.

  Cristóbal Colón

  Journey, Numbers, Long

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.17

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• ¿Qué ganamos navegando hasta la luna si no podemos cruzar el abismo que nos separa de nosotros mismos?

  Thomas Merton

  Inspiración, Espiritual, Luna

  Thomas Merton (2015). "Elegir amar al mundo: On Contemplation", p.35, Sounds True.

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• Hay una marea en los asuntos de los hombres, que tomada en la crecida, conduce a la fortuna. Si se omite, todo el viaje de su vida se ve envuelto en aguas poco profundas y en miserias. En un mar tan lleno estamos ahora a flote. Y debemos tomar la corriente cuando sirve, o perder nuestras aventuras.

  William Shakespeare

  Vida, Tomada, Oportunidad

  Julio César' (1599) acto 4, esc. 3, l. 215

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• My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.

  Bill Toomey

  Journey (Viaje)

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• Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

  Joshua Slocum

  Journey, Boston, Flesh

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.372, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

  Zebulon Pike

  Errors, Preparation, Attention

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

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• And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Journey, Thinking, Musician

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• Of this voyage, I observe, that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened.

  Cristóbal Colón

  Time, Writing, Miracle

  "Journal of the First Voyage". Book by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Entry for March 15, 1493,

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• If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirador, Divertido, Viaje

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.372, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages.

  Cristóbal Colón

  Hope, Honesty, Lying

  Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 7, 1503.

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• Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.

  James Wolcott

  Kings, Stars, Princess

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• Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

  Séneca el Joven

  Life, Anger, Suicidal

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• El objeto de todos los viajes anteriores a los Mares del Sur emprendidos por el mando de su majestad actual, ha sido el avance de la ciencia y el aumento del conocimiento.

  William Bligh

  Viaje, Mar, Avance

  William Bligh (1792). "Un Viaje al Mar del Sur Emprendido por Orden de Su Majestad: Con el propósito de transportar el árbol del pan a las Indias Occidentales, en el barco de Su Majestad el Bounty, comandado por el teniente William Bligh. Incluyendo un relato del motín a bordo de dicho buque, y el posterior viaje de parte de la tripulación, en el barco, desde Tofoa, una de las islas amigas, a Timor, un asentamiento holandés en las Indias Orientales ...", p.3

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• Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Atheism, Needs

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4113, Delphi Classics

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• To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

  Leon Uris

  Memories, Men, Matter

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Cosmos, Rough Times

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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