Travel Quotes - Page 9

Do not follow where the path may lead.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

You get educated by traveling.

... life is short and the world is wide

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

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.

Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.