Places I've Been Quotes

• Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

  Judith Thurman

  Travel, Adventure, Dreamer

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• Once a year go someplace you've never been.

  Dalai Lama

  Travel, Vacation, Years

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• I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.

  Tony Bennett

  Moving, Past, Who I Am

  Tony Bennett (2012). “The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett”, p.1889, Simon and Schuster

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• My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mean, Hard Times, Goal

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, People, Stories

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• Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle.

  Eric Davis

  Pieces, Places I've Been, Puzzles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

  Emma Watson

  Quirky, Dolls, Collections

  "Emma Watson". www.seventeen.com. December 12, 2007.

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• I want to be rich in all the foods I’ve tasted and all the places I’ve been and all the people I’ve kissed.

  Sam Smith

  People, Want, Rich

  "Sam Smith Uncovered: 10 Interesting Facts" by Katie Rosbottom, www.famefocus.com. October 8, 2014.

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• I'm just appreciative of everything that has happened in my life. I'm overwhelmed, sometimes, by this. When I see where I grew up and the places I've been, it puts a smile on my face because of all the people there I can help. I give them food; I give them money; I try to provide them with a good lifestyle, and do the best I can because that's where I came from. Those are my people.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Good Life, Giving, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You know, I love traveling and I love being exposed to different cultures, but really it's the people that I've met along the way, not the places I've been, that have opened my eyes.

  Amy Adams

  Eye, Love Is, People

  "Amy Adams on "Batman v Superman" and the "Cool" Jennifer Lawrence Party She Doesn't Want To Miss". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 20, 2015.

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• My second passion besides fighting is traveling. So, for me to be able to go somewhere like the places I've been is just awesome.

  Jake Hecht

  Passion, Fighting, Able

  Interview with Garrett Derr, bleacherreport.com. June 8, 2012.

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• It's probably one of the worst places I've been.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Worst, Places I've Been

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• I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

  George Eads

  Travel, Boys, Shooting

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• I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.

  Tom DeLonge

  Band, Looking Forward, Places I've Been

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• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  Adam Braun

  Taken, Long, People

  "Fathers & Sons". The Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2012.

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• My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

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• I've had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn't work out. I don't want to dwell on that and I don't want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Thinking, People, Work Out

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• Without parental guidance telling you there's another way to live it can be tough but my kids have an advantage over my life. I can tell them I know what it's like and that they don't ever want to go to the places I've been, whereas when I grew up, it was so accepted and normal that if you didn't do it, you were considered weird.

  Christian Hosoi

  Kids, Way To Live, Want

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I like most of the places I've been to, but I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't really like eating fish, and I know that's very popular out there in Africa, but the whole thing just doesn't appeal to me.

  Britney Spears

  Japan, Eating, Appeals

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• In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of Central and South America , I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.

  Henry Rollins

  Nice, America, Body

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• There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

  Connie Francis

  True Friend, Italian, Chance

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• I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.

  Michael Sandel

  Frustration, Japan, Europe

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• Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting places I've been, phases I've been through, people I've loved or thought I did.

  Mary Schmich

  Book, Mirrors, Sight

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• What is a career, actually? Nobody can destroy my career. Only I can destroy my career, if I am a bad conductor. I've gone to lesser known orchestras in Scotland and Sweden, Detroit, but I have enjoyed the places I've been, and had success. I like the close community relations, and to solve problems.

  Neeme Jarvi

  Careers, Scotland, Community

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• I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

  Grace Paley

  New York, Book, College

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