Traveler Quotes - Page 17

• Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Childhood, Agents

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• May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and gives but bad receipts for payment in the lower world. Ah, passers-by that stroll, travelers that come and go, all that I had, I placed on virtue, and lost the game!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Games, Giving, Gold

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.

  Washington Allston

  Lying, Thinking, Difficulty

  Washington Allston (1993). “The Correspondence of Washington Allston”, p.15, University Press of Kentucky

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• Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

  Aphra Behn

  Night, Light, Steps

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• I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Book, Reading, Men

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was saddened to learn of the passing of Leonard Nimoy, a fellow space traveler because he helped make the journey into the final frontier accessible to us all.... Indeed, there are strange new worlds to explore -- to seek out new life and start new civilizations. It is time to boldly go where no man -- or woman -- has gone before. Thanks to Leonard Nimoy and his beloved Mr. Spock, the bar has been set high for us to continue humanity's quest to probe outward in the universe.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Journey, Men, Civilization

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• There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Beautiful, Hands, Soldier

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• But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.

  Jack McDevitt

  Thinking, Waiting, Needs

  Jack McDevitt (2009). “Time Travelers Never Die”, p.50, Penguin

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• The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Elements, Born Again, Passports

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics

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• My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Fighting, Order, Advice

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• I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing. I think somehow I know that I should have a larger vision of art, but I can't think of what that would be.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Thinking, Should Have

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 09, 2013.

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• Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters - the saints and the sinners, real or imagined - reading shows you how to be a better human being.

  Donalyn Miller

  Real, Reading, School

  Donalyn Miller (2010). “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child”, p.18, John Wiley & Sons

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• Come from your wandering way, weary travelers. Come to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Come to that heavenly haven called home. Here you will discover the truth. Here you will learn the reality of the Godhead, the comfort of the plan of salvation, the sanctity of the marriage covenant, the power of personal prayer. Come home.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Prayer, Home

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• Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Islands, Tree, Java

  Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.295

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• A wise traveler never despises his own country.
  [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]

  Carlo Goldoni

  Wise, Country, Travel

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• the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.

  Fanny Burney

  Sex, Lines, May

  Fanny Burney (1850). “Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world”, p.233

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• To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Sweet, Travel, Interesting

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• The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.

  Alexander Zinoviev

  Men, Evil, Giving

  "Gorbachevism". Book by Gorbachevism, 5th article, 1988.

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• Every land has its own special rhythm, and unless the traveler takes the time to learn the rhythm, he or she will remain an outsider there always.

  Juliette de Bairacli Levy

  Travel, Land, Special

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• The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Travel, Asia

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• We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Christian, Wise, Journey

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.314

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• The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.

  James Hollis

  Daddy, Doe, Middle

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• Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Ancient, Modern

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.195

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• There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Discovery, Soul

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• The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Travel, Cities, Two

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