Travel Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image ““go on a whaling voyage; this”” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Travel
“I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the… — Megan Mayhew Bergman Copy Share Image
“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with bravery, perseverance,… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
“As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners of Nantucket! Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“An eccentric Connecticut whaling captain named Preserved Fish and his cousin-partner Joseph Grinnell shifted from hawking New Bedford whale oil to running the Swallowtail… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Whales are like elephants of the sea. They have family structures, mannerisms, and habits that are similar to our own.” — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
“Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what then? Methinks we have… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world… — Marianne Vos Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Often in my game as an actor, someone else pays for your travel and there's nothing like being able to lie flat on a… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my… — Sofia Vergara Copy Share Image
A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
I collect underwear from my travels. Lace, lingerie, bodysuits... they're like souvenirs. — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
