Travel Quotes - Page 38

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

A place is only as good as the people in it.

The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others—or allow ourselves to be taken—with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car.

All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

World will suffice for me in the future.

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.