Travel Quotes - Page 35

• I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

  Joan Collins

  Children, Three, Want

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• Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.

  Michael Mewshaw

  Home, Alive, Way

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• I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Funny, Air, Insightful

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• I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.

  Les Dawson

  Funny, Prayer, Sick

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• In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Differences, Insightful

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• Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.

  Kenny Everett

  Funny, Insightful, Doe

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• There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Home, Insightful

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• Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else

  Miriam

  Surprise, Bizarre, Similarity

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• One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

  Miriam

  Japan, Delicate, Ifs

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• Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.

  Dean Stockwell

  Opportunity, Mind, Peru

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• It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.

  Frank Smythe

  Nature, Yellow, Space

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• Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.

  Tom Hornbein

  Nature, Orange, Rocks

  Peter Potterfield, Tom Hornbein (2003). “Everest”, p.141, The Mountaineers Books

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• Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.

  Ed Viesturs

  Nature, People, Mountain

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• But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

  Jon Krakauer

  Nature, Energy, Care

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.

  Reinhold Messner

  Nature, Tired, Agony

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• What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Home, Men

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.207, OUP Oxford

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• ... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Spring, Rocks

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.153, Profile Books

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• Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Sea, Four Elements

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.21, OUP Oxford

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• If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Giving, Ponds

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.23, OUP Oxford

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• To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Air, Wind

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Fall, Rising

  "The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci".

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• Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

  Andre Benjamin

  Australia Day, Australia, Far Away

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• A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Eye, Looks

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Winter, Nuts

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• The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Discovery, Special

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.205, Penguin

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