Travel Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Real, Atlas, Pieces

  Evelyn Waugh (1934). “Ninety-two Days: Travels in Guiana and Brazil”, Serif Publishing

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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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• HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Police, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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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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• 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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• 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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• I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

  Junko Tabei

  Nature, Men, Climbing

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

  Stefanie Powers

  Want, Feels, Persons

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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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• There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.

  Jan Morris

  Running, Dog, Cities

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• We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

  Edward Abbey

  Needs, Wilderness, Possibility

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• They change their skies,
  but not their souls
  who run across the sea.

  Horace

  Running, Sea, Sky

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• Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament

  Monica Seles

  Christmas, Sports, Journey

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• I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.

  Karlie Kloss

  Careers, World, Thanks

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• My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

  Bill Bryson

  Judging, Skins, Sound

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• Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.

  Harry Golden

  Sex, Adventure, Men

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• Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

  Isaac Watts

  Mind

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• I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I arrive at my destination.

  Marc Beland

  Funny, Dark, Science

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• One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.

  Helen A. Rosburg

  Daughter, Son, Vacation

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• The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

  Xunzi

  Life And Love, Two, New Roads

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• With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

  Edmund de Waal

  Moving, Home, Language

  Edmund de Waal (2010). “The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance”, p.22, Random House

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