Roaming Quotes

• My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

  Buffalo Bill

  Home, Roaming Around, Long

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.93, U of Nebraska Press

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• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Beauty, Women, Infancy Is

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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• I'm not waiting for times to change
  I want to live like a free-roaming soul
  on the highway of our love.

  Neil Young

  Waiting, Soul, Want

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• For always roaming with a hungry heart.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Hungry

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Elephants, Progress

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• Here at the quiet limit of the world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  World, Limits, Quiet

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 1

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• I liked roaming around by myself.

  Jimmy Rushing

  Roaming Around

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• Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Children, Mind

  "Music Is My Mistress". Book by Duke Ellington, 1973.

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam.

  Bhagawan Nityananda

  Spiritual, Yoga, Heart

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• You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Believe, Secret, Believe In Yourself

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• I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Dallas, Streets

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• If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Order, Peculiar

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• Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

  Spike Lee

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• And what exactly is nature walking? It's any and every kind of walking you can do in the natural world. The activity encompasses strolling, striding, sauntering, stepping, treading, tramping, traipsing, traversing, rambling, roving, roaming, racewalking, hiking, meandering, wandering, wending, pacing, peregrinating, perambulating ... in natural surroundings.

  Charlie Cook

  Exactly Is, Hiking, World

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• Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is
  Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
  And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

  Walt Whitman

  Evil, Littles, Saws

  Walt Whitman, “Roaming In Thought”

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• Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

  James Altucher

  Past, Pages, Nuance

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• For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Adventure, Self, Imagination

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.17, Canongate Books

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• Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Halloween, Autumn, Air

  "Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Children, Years, Heaven

  Bertolt Brecht (1971). “Collected Plays: The life of Galileo. The trial of Lucullus. Mother Courage and her children”

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• I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

  Karl Pilkington

  Animal, House, Pet

  "Karl Pilkington On 'An Idiot Abroad,' Endangered Animals & Ricky Gervais (VIDEO)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.

  Louis Rukeyser

  Able, Different, World

  Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street newsletter, November 1996.

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• There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

  Christian Bale

  Father, Men, Should Have

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• I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

  David Gemmell

  Loyalty, Stupid, Believe

  David Gemmell (2009). “Troy: Shield Of Thunder”, p.371, Random House

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• I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Sleep, Cities, Elephants

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