Roads And Journeys Quotes - Page 2

• All that is gold does not glitter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Being Strong, Travel, Fantasy Novels

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

  Margaret Landon

  Journey, Destination

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• We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

  John Hope Franklin

  Travel, Journey, African American

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• Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Travel, Journey

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• Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Graduation, Confidence

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Travel, Adventure, Soul Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1983). “Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches”

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• When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

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• Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

  Mark Jenkins

  Motivational, Travel, Kindness

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• The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Reality, Imagination

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.104

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• All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Leaving, Around The World

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• Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

  Cesare Pavese

  Travel, Home, Strangers And Friends

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• To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, Summer, Travel

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• I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

  James A. Baldwin

  Travel, Discovery, Europe

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

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• Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Travel, Fun, Mind

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• All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Gratitude, Travel

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1828). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous: to which are Now Added Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies; Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor Dodd”, p.278

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• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

  James A. Michener

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.

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• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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• The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Nature, Travel

  Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.318

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• Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Country, Travel

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• A wise traveler never despises his own country.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Country, Travel

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Travel, Adventure

  "Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.

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