Travel Quotes - Page 33

• In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

  Neil Young

  Night, Old Friends, Good Times

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• It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Home, Skills, Breakfast

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

  Pico Iyer

  Wordsworth, Mood, Certain

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• For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

  Tahir Shah

  Journey, Treasure, Layers

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• I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.

  Andrew Evans

  Country, Contests

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• What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

  Agatha Christie

  America, Revolution, Absurdity

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• It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

  Henry James

  Country, Mountain, Meals

  Henry James (2016). “The Wings of the Dove, Complete: American Literature”, p.71, 谷月社

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• LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.

  Warren Zevon

  Dream, Home, Denver

  Song: Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Album: Mr. Bad Example, 1991

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• Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

  Israel Shenker

  Writing, Rope, Voyages

  Israel Shenker (1974). “Words and their masters”

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• I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.

  Natalie Merchant

  Eye, Sight, Mind

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• Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm just gon' sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.

  Otis Redding

  Loneliness, Home, Two

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• Well there's floodin' down in Texas. All of the telephone lines are down. Well, I've been tryin' to call my baby, Lord, and I can't get a single sound.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Baby, Texas, Sound

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• In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sky, Water, Earth

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

  Tahir Shah

  Opposites, Cities, India

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.161, Lulu.com

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• Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.

  Neal Shusterman

  Exit, Jersey, Helpful

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• What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

  Elizabeth Benedict

  Fear, Giving, Kind

  Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

  Tahir Shah

  Hygiene, Senses, Wet

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• I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Xenophobia, Racism, Wish

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

  Tom Waits

  Night, Flames, Blood

  Tom Waits (2007). “The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983”, Ecco

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• From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you.

  Peter Greenberg

  Abuse, Different, Return

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• It's very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there, if we travel by my... dragon-fly. No, it's not in Spain, but all the same, you know, it's a groovy name. And the wind's just right... Hang on, my darling, hang on if you wanna go. Hear it's a really groovy place, with just a little bit Spanish Castle Magic.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Dragons, Wind, Names

  "Starting at Zero".

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• Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Fall, Home, Thinking

  Song: A Thousand Miles, Album: Be Not Nobody

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• You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took off for the sky. And here, she's acting happy, inside her handsome home. And me, I'm flying in my taxi, taking tips, and getting stoned. I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.

  Harry Chapin

  Home, Sky, Flying

  Song: Taxi, 1972

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• The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.

  Jim Fergus

  Fall, Talking, Feet

  Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

  Geert Hofstede

  Southern Italy, People, Climate

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