Travel Quotes - Page 19

• Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

  Peter Matthiessen

  Beautiful, Regret, Journey

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

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• Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free
  I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Calling, World

  Song: Harem Holiday

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• Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moving, Tourism, Particular

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

  Bill Bryson

  Memorable, Pessimism, Natural

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• The journey is my home.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Home, Journey

  Muriel Rukeyser (1957). “One Life”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

  Minor White

  Photography, Heart, Cameras

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• The world is my lobster.

  Keith O'Neill

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Life, Change, Moving

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• The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

  Bill Gates

  Brother, Writing, Airplane

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

  Alexander Cockburn

  Imagination, Valleys, World

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

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• He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Men, Hands

  Henry David Thoreau, Michael McCurdy, Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “Walden”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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• Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.

  Junko Tabei

  Motivational, Perseverance, Nature

  "Protecting the Places We Climb" by Phil Powers, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

  Junko Tabei

  Dream, Nature, Believe

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• All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

  Ellen Potter

  Adventure, Moments, Crap

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.248, Macmillan

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• I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

  Alan Davies

  Journey, Car, Tears

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• I want to feel that every trip I make has enhanced me as a person.

  Stefanie Powers

  Want, Feels, Persons

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• I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.

  Piper Perabo

  Truck

  Interview with Lori Blackman, www.edition.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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• I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.

  Boomer Esiason

  Years, Needs, Window

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• Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Life, Wise, Ignorant

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

  Arthur Frommer

  Views, Understanding, Challenges

  Arthur Frommer, Pauline Frommer (1996). “Arthur Frommer's New World of Travel”, Frommer's

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• California: Sunny nutland.

  Edwin Diamond

  Home, California, Sunny

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• I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.

  Roberta Williams

  Adventure, Emotional, People

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• The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.

  Roberta Williams

  Husband, Adventure, Son

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• I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.

  Steve Squyres

  Adventure, People, Giving

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• I'm leaving on a jet plane
  Don't know when I'll be back again

  John Denver

  Song, Leaving, Jet Planes

  "Leaving on a Jet Plane" (song) (1967)

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