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Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don't kick you around. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good. -- Saadi
For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot. -- Knut Hamsun
I never look at a note. I just roam the stage. The people do not want to leave. -- Jayne Meadows
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. -- Samuel Johnson
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. -- William Cowper
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam. -- Eliza Cook
I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird! -- Bettie Page
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. -- George William Russell
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. -- Johannes Tauler
We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets. -- Brigitte Bardot
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home. -- Shelby Foote
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food. -- Kabir Bedi
You've got to keep a dog with you at all times. A dog cannot roam. You've got to keep him in the house with you. You can't have a wild dog and expect days to go good. -- George Foreman
I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam. -- Alex Turner
It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth. -- Nanette Lepore
That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers. -- Rob Sheffield
One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state. -- Roberto Unger
It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed and tinted to within an inch of its life before it can be allowed to roam freely in the public eye. -- Stella Young
Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth. -- Julian Baggini
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient. -- Patti Smith
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush. -- Noam Chomsky
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair. -- William Gibson
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to. -- Gillian Flynn
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you. -- Chad Harbach
The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize - to be awarded for sending a robotic spacecraft to this nearby world that can roam at least 500 meters, and send back data such as a photo. -- Seth Shostak
Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them. -- Darell Hammond
When things get too chaotic, I need to roam. -- Nathan Parsons
The conquered roam free in the box of insanity. -- T.F. Hodge
Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. -- William Cowper
Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise. -- Alice B. Toklas
Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If hell is to roam, then i've got hell to pave... -- CM Punk
Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one. -- Samuel Beckett
Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless . -- Sameh Elsayed
The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam. -- Bhagawan Nityananda
And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green -- Thom Yorke
And I call Saks Fifth Ave-y home. That is where a real bad Barbie roam. -- Nicki Minaj
Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free. -- Charles Mackay
To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become. -- John Donne
As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light... -- Nick Gordon
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. -- Alexander Pope
Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet. -- Raquel Cepeda
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home. -- William Wordsworth
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home. -- John Howard Payne
When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo. -- Fran Tarkenton
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. -- William Tenn
And I exist, I roam but I don't sleep anymore I cry, laugh, scream but I don't remember why. -- Katerina Gogou
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily. -- Sivananda
It takes a Mother's Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam. -- Helen Steiner Rice
But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars. -- Marisha Pessl
Yet dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside; It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam, through lands and waterswide. -- William Allingham
The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless. -- Stephen Hawking
Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey. -- Serina Hartwell
Though all the guns be silenced,each soldier in his home,There is no peace till Love comes,till the meek may safely roam. -- C. P. Klapper
I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other. -- Rebecca Solnit
How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home. -- Isaac Bickerstaffe
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees. -- Alfred Austin
Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted. -- Margaret Atwood
If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it. -- Jeannette Walls
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We live in a world where money is necessary. You can't just go out and roam the forest and the cities, at least in America. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live. -- Hans Christian Andersen
A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes. -- Frank McCourt
Oh! where does faithful GÃ©lert roam, The flow'r of all his race? So true, so brave; a lamb at home, A lion in the chase. -- William Spencer
I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes. -- P.S. Bartlett
I had an inheritance from my father,It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world,The spending of it's never done." -- Ernest Hemingway
I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it's never done. -- Ernest Hemingway
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores -- Matsuo Basho
We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors. -- E. O. Wilson
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. -- Oliver Goldsmith
The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognito where monsters roam. -- David Bainbridge
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home. -- Ben Jonson
I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free. -- Richard Paul Evans
My old man said, `Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam. -- Marie Lloyd
Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam? -- Charles Lamb
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam. -- William Cowper
Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home. -- Walt Disney
I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom. -- Meg Cabot

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