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Anthony Bourdain Quotes about Travel

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Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

Anthony Bourdain
Life, Change, Travel

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Anthony Bourdain
Travel, Ocean, Moving

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

Anthony Bourdain
Travel, Moving, Return

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

Anthony Bourdain
Travel, Journey, Expression
"A Cook's Tour". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2001.

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

Anthony Bourdain
Travel, Thinking, Vacation
Interview with Ali Trachta, www.laweekly.com. August 27, 2012.

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

Anthony Bourdain
Travel, Sleep, Two
Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.56, A&C Black

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

Anthony Bourdain
Beautiful, Travel, Hurt
Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.6, Bloomsbury Publishing

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there - with your eyes open - and lived to see it.

Anthony Bourdain
Travel, Eye, Reality
"The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2006.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

Anthony Bourdain
Travel, Sleep, Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

Anthony Bourdain
Travel, Crazy, Culture

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