Travel Quotes - Page 26

• Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Tourism, Enjoy

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.156, Courier Corporation

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• I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.

  Rose McGowan

  Thinking, Phones, People

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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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• I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

  Roberta Williams

  Believe, Adventure, Games

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• Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Beautiful, Insightful

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• I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

  Roberta Williams

  Adventure, Games, Apples

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• More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

  Joseph Lelyveld

  Country, Workout, Food

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• Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

  William Bligh

  Summer, Strong, Adventure

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.43, BoD – Books on Demand

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• All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.

  William Bligh

  Adventure, Wind, Variables

  William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.

  Robert Breault

  Inspiring, Add, Each Day

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• No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Baby, Witty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Spiritual, Women, Home

  Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Christ Legends and the Miracles of Antichrist”, p.477, Library of Alexandria

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• Look down - look down that lonesome road
  Before you travel on

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Looks, Lonesome

  Song: Lonesome Road, The, Album: A Swingin' Affair!

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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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• 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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• One always wonders about roads not taken.

  Warren Christopher

  Taken, Wonder, Road Not Taken

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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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• Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

  William T. Piper

  Dog, Baby, Nature

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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 haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

  Sean Connery

  Moving, Looks, World

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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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• 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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