William Allingham Quotes

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

I've been traveling around the world forever.

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.

For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

He traveled in order to come home.

I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.

I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure of it: setting out and taking off.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

The journey is my home.

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air.

Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.