The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. - Anne Michaels
If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth. - Thomas à Kempis
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens. - Maxim Gorky
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. - Thomas Merton
All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. - C.S. Lewis
I am on pilgrim to self-realisation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience. - Ambrose Bierce