Travel Quotes - Page 34

• I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.

  Ewan MacColl

  Country, Men, People

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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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• Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Home, Joy, Risk

  Jane Wilson-Howarth (2011). “How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling”, p.12, Travelers' Tales

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• But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

  George Harrison

  Pay The Price, Car, Gears

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• Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  People, Energy, Looks

  WhiteWalls magazine, Vol. 36-38, p. 45, 1995.

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• Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Girl, Real, Hero

  Song: Thunder Road, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

  Tahir Shah

  Two, Friendly, Facts

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you're going to have - that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.

  Erin Lokitz

  Home, Thinking, India

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• For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Past, Blue

  Song: Space Oddity

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• Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?

  Marc Cohn

  Feet, Memphis, Way

  Song: Walking In Memphis, Album: Marc Cohn

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• In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

  Tahir Shah

  Long, India, Peculiar

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback”, p.117, Lulu.com

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• Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

  Hilary Mantel

  Home, Ideas, People

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• Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.

  Carole King

  Dream, Lonely, Mind

  Song: So Far Away, Album: Tapestry, 1971

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• Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Technology, Men, Dust

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• If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

  Nat King Cole

  Way, West, Six

  Song: (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66

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• Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.

  Neil Young

  Running, Wonder, Get Away

  Song: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

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• In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

  James Taylor

  Sunshine, Mind, Moonshine

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• We're on a road to nowhere, come on inside. Takin' that ride to nowhere, we'll take that ride. I'm feelin' okay this mornin', and you know, we're on the road to paradise, here we go, here we go.

  David Byrne

  Paradise, Okay, Knows

  "Song: "Road to Nowhere" ("Little Creatures")". September 1985.

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• On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.

  Al Stewart

  Running, Country, Morning

  Song: The Year Of The Cat

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• Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you know I might get busted. But my heart keeps calling me backwards, as I get on the 707. Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes, you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. Big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay.

  Steve Miller

  Goodbye, Eye, Home

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• So that's why you've got to try, you got to breath and have some fun. Though I'm not paid, I play this game, and I won't stop until I'm done. But what I really want to know is - Are you gonna go my way?

  Lenny Kravitz

  Fun, Games, Play

  "Song: "Are you Gonna Go My Way" ("Are you Gonna Go My Way")". 1993.

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• Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that all her dreams are sweet? Said now, would ya guide her on the roads, and make them softer for her feet? Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that she's gonna be alright, until she's home and here with me.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Sweet, Home

  Song: Travelin' Prayer, Album: Piano Man, 1973

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• Heaven's my destination.

  Thornton Wilder

  Heaven, Destination

  Thornton Wilder (2016). “Heaven's My Destination”, p.6, Head of Zeus

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• I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Understanding, Trying

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• Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

  Graham Nash

  Men, Immigration, Lines

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