Travel And Tourism Quotes - Page 3

• Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

  Ibn Battuta

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventurous

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• Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.274, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Venus De Milo, Society

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8209, Delphi Classics

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• Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Neale Donald Walsch (2010). “Neale Donald Walsh's Little Book of Life: A User's Manual”, p.95, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

  Irving Wallace

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

  Peter Høeg

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.339, Macmillan

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

  Lord Byron

  War, Reading, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2656, Delphi Classics

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

  Dalai Lama

  Travel, Vacation, Years

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

  John Steinbeck

  Maturity, People, Mature

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Home, Men

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 302 (17 April 1778)

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• Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

  Henry James

  Travel, Venice, Tourism

  Henry James (1995). “Italian Hours”, p.43, Penguin

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• For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Moving, Memorable

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Travel, Imagination, Valleys

  Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.95, Verso

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• If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Anchors, Tourism

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Adventure, Memorable

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

  Robert Benchley

  Travel, Children, Airplane

  Pluck and Luck (1925)

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• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Positive, Travel, Attitude

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• It is not down in any map; true places never are.

  Herman Melville

  Nature, Travel, Home

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.57

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• Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Travel, Memorable

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.481, Delphi Classics

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• A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

  John Steinbeck

  Marriage, Travel, Adventure

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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