Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pico Iyer

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

Phillip Phillips

Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

John Lubbock

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

John Lindsay

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

Jimmy Cliff

I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind's made up, I'll never stop, my faith will see me through.

George Lucas

Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.

Agatha Christie

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

Baz Luhrmann

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Dan Eldon

The journey is the destination.

Bobby Scott

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Mavis Staples

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

Charles Spurgeon

You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.

James A. Baldwin

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

George Washington

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Isabel Allende

Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.

Ogden Nash

Home is heaven and orgies are vile/ But you need an orgy, once in a while.

Bill Vaughan

Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.

Herb Caen

The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

Gerald Durrell

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.

Wilkie Collins

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.