Tourism Quotes - Page 6

• I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Country, Travel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

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• The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Friendship, Travel

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• Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Expectations, Tourists

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• I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Airplane, Years, Flying

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• After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

  Edgar Bergen

  Travel, Years, Tourists

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• It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Disenchanted, Hopefully

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• Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Travel, Artist, Journey

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Beautiful, Country, Travel

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “A World of Strangers”, p.45, A&C Black

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• We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

  Marc Almond

  Opportunity, People, Tourists

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• Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

  Alan Coren

  Funny, Humor, Order

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.184, Canongate Books

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• History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

  Ted Koppel

  History, Historical, Tools

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• I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.

  Brian Setzer

  Tourists, Gone, Gears

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• I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Adventure, Moon, Long

  "Buzz Aldrin Wants To Send People On A One-Way Trip To Mars". Interview with Rebecca Boyle, www.popsci.com. May 07, 2013.

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• We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

  Anatole Broyard

  War, Winning, Tourists

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• Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

  Ed Rendell

  Second Chance, People, Term

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• Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.

  Kenny Guinn

  Climate, Double Standard, Economic

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• They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

  Mike Schmidt

  Sports, Roots, Giving

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• We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

  Epictetus

  Character, Effort, Theft

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• The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  America, Effort, Mind

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• We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry.

  James R. Thompson

  Numbers, Illinois, Way

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• One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.

  Freya Stark

  Differences, Healthy, Trying

  "Riding to the Tigris" by Freya Stark, quoted in "The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road" by Paul Theroux, McClelland & Stewart, (p. 226), July 12, 2011.

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• In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

  Burt Rutan

  Country, Years, Space

  "U.S. team bids to win space prize". www.cnn.com. September 30, 2004.

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• We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Rocks, Tourists, Dinosaurs

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, New Orleans, Cities

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• But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Dedication, Miracle, Tourists

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