Travel Quotes - Page 28

• The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Imagination

  George Eliot, Elma Fraser Stuart (1909). “Letters from George Eliot to Elma Stuart, 1872-1880”

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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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• I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

  Peter Ustinov

  Wine, Italian, Hell

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• If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Sex, Hate, Adventure

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• Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winning, Gambling, Losing

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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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• As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

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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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• The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Writing, People, Interesting

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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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• But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit your life or you're going to walk away.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Girl, Morning, Wake Up

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.9, Penguin

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• It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

  Edna Ferber

  Sound, Different, Far Away

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Gigolo”, p.167, Booklassic

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• You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

  Freya Stark

  Wise, Art, May

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• When we are high up, everything looks very small.
  Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important.
  We have left whatever we won or lost down below.
  From the top of a mountain you can see
  how large the world is and how wide the horizon.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Sadness

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• The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Nature, Mountain, World

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• I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

  Paul Anka

  Way, End Is Near, My Way

  "My Way" (song) (1969). Translation of a French song by Claude Francois and Jacques Revaux.

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• The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.

  Geoff Dyer

  Home, Feels, Ideals

  Geoff Dyer (2014). “Paris Trance: A Romance”, p.95, Macmillan

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• When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.

  Jim Elliot

  Inspiring, Passion And Purity, Dies

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• Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

  Reinhold Messner

  Nature, Climbing, Mountain

  "All Fourteen 8,000ers". Book by Reinhold Messner, 1987.

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• An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Teaching, Home

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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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• When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.

  Rumi

  Advice, Asks, Traveler

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• I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

  Bruce Dern

  People, Lessons, Six

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• I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

  Parker Stevenson

  Sports, People, Excited

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• When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Looks, Brighter, Travel And Love

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.50, Macmillan

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