Caravans Quotes

• Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!

  Enid Blyton

  Night, House, Lovely

  "Mr. Galliano's Circus". Book by Enid Blyton, www.theguardian.com. 1938.

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• No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Stars

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Adversity, Camels

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• The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!

  Omar Khayyam

  Stars, Nihilism, Dawn

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.167, University of Virginia Press

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• What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Dog, Perseverance, Moving

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• Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positive, Spiritual

  "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 67, 1990.

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• Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).

  Khaled Hosseini

  Moving, Catharsis, Goes On

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• I follow the Way of Love,
  and where Love's caravan takes its path,
  there is my religion, my faith.

  Ibn Arabi

  Way, Path, Way Of Love

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• Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

  Ralph Hodgson

  Time, Men, One Day

  Poems (1917) "Time, You Old Gipsy Man"

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• Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths of the stars. Our camel driver is at work; the caravan is being readied. He asks that we forgive him for the disturbance he has caused us, He asks why we travellers are asleep. Everywhere the murmur of departure; the stars, like candles thrust at us from behind blue veils, and as if to make the invisible plain, a wondrous people have come forth.

  Rumi

  Stars, Blue, People

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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• My creed is LOVE;
  Wherever its caravan turns along the way,
  That is my belief,
  My faith.

  Ibn Arabi

  Gazelles, Way, Belief

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• A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste
  Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-
  And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd
  The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Taste, Waste

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.167, University of Virginia Press

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• The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on

  Joseph Needham

  Dog, Moving, May

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• Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

  Khalil Gibran

  Uplifting, Faith, Philosophical

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

  Rain, Men, Rivers

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.5, Powell Publications, LLC

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• There are truckloads of broccoli at this very minute descending on Washington. My family is divided. For the broccoli vote out there: Barbara loves broccoli. She has tried to make me eat it. She eats it all the time herself. So she can go out and meet the caravan of broccoli that's coming in.

  George H. W. Bush

  Vote, My Family, Minutes

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

  David Remnick

  Beautiful, Jobs, Crazy

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• Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle of locomotives pounding through the night, by the caravans leaving on the Golden Road to Samarkand, by quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir . . . Our grandchildren will likewise have their inspiration-among the equatorial stars. They will be able to look up at the night sky and watch the stately procession of the Ports of Earth-the strange new harbors where the ships of space make their planetfalls and their departures.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dream, Stars, Inspiration

  Arthur C. Clarke (1968). “the Promise of Space”

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• Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the
  silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of
  silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled
  with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence.
  The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great
  and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize.
  Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something
  created for its own sake.

  Max Picard

  Moving, Animal, Silence

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• Hitoshi: I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven't a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are people I've yet to meet, others I'll never see again. People who are gone before you know it, people who are just passing through. Even as we exchange hellos, they seem to grow transparent. I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes. I earnestly pray that a trace of my girl-child self will always be with you. For waving good-bye, I thank you.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Girl, Children, Moving

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.150, Grove Press

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• You realize true magic of cinema when you put the right people together, at the right time, with the right kind of project, where they're not worried about their salary, they're not worried about their caravan.

  Jean-Marc Barr

  People, Magic, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Oasis, Camels

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• I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.

  John Bonham

  Drinking, Tired, Blow

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• My heart can take on any form:
  A meadow for gazelles,
  A cloister for monks,
  For the idols, sacred ground,
  Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim,
  The tables of the Torah,
  The scrolls of the Quran.
  
  My creed is Love;
  Wherever its caravan turns along the way,
  That is my belief,
  My faith.

  Ibn Arabi

  Heart, Idols, Tables

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• Dogs bark and the caravan goes by.

  Jose Mourinho

  Dog, Bark

  "José Mourinho: 'Chelsea did everything that champions need to do'" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2015.

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