Travel Quotes - Page 60

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

No matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language of these fields that I may the better express myself. If I should travel to the prairies, I should much less understand them, and my past life would serve me but ill to describe them. Many a weed here stands for more of life to me than the big trees of California would if I should go there. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

it is my belief that one should learn patience in a foreign land, for I take it that this is the true measure of travel. If one does not suffer some frustration of the ordinary reflexes, how can one be sure one is really traveling?

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

Look down - look down that lonesome road Before you travel on

I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.