Travel Quotes - Page 29

• 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 am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

  Tim Cahill

  Dream, Adventure, Funny Travel

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• You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

  Tim Cahill

  Writing, Funny Travel

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• The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Beautiful, Country, Reality

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “A World of Strangers”, p.45, A&C Black

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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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• When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Journey, Acquaintance, Traveling Alone

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• Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full.
  Way down here on earth, I could feel it's pull.
  The weight of gravity or just the lure of life,
  Made me want to leave my only home tonight.
  
  I'm just wondering how we know where we belong
  Is it in the arc of the moon, leaving shadows on the lawn
  In the path of fireflies and a single bird at dawn
  Singing in between here and gone

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Life, Nature, Home

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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 hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

  Katie Price

  Hate, People, Different

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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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• 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 I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

  David Blunkett

  Exercise, Giving, Stubborn

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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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• Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

  Paul Theroux

  Reality, Delay, Dirt

  Paul Theroux (2009). “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.

  Milan Kundera

  Two, Space, Tourism

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• Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

  Simon Raven

  Life Is Short, World, Wide

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• I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

  Che Guevara

  Destiny, Facts, Conformity

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

  Anna Godbersen

  Way, Ships, Cruise

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• There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

  Daniel Goldin

  Future, Air, Alternatives

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• I learn much more by traveling by myself.

  Roberto Cavalli

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• The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

  Simon Winchester

  Land, Profound, Tasks

  Simon Winchester (2004). “Korea: a walk through the land of miracles”, ePenguin

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• You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

  A. A. Gill

  Years, World, Draws

  A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

  Lara St. John

  People, Attention, Pay

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