Travel Quotes - Page 30

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

I've always sort of felt a little bit like I was on the road less traveled, so if I come across a story about a person who broke the rules, or did things differently and succeeded, that's really inspiring to me.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over the city's ripped backsides and everything looks good tonight.

Wake up and ponder the future

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.