Travel Quotes - Page 65

Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting.

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

Yea, I've got a dream too. It involves time-travel and a rifle.

Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.

I hope to see London once ere I die.

Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

Travelers must be content.

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.

I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

Travellers are just commuters with a wider perspective.

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.

You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.

I don't want to travel.

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.

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back.

I will always be referred to as a theorist, but I was only a fellow traveller with a degree.