Great Travel Quotes - Page 4

• I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

  Dennis Potter

  Travel, Fear, Airports

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• When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Glasses, Ego

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• In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do.

  Ivanka Trump

  Travel, Inspire, Jewelry

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• 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.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Travel, Memorable

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

  Carol Lynn Pearson

  Sports, Veterans Day, Travel

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Brother, Hands

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.233, Velvet Element Books

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• Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Travel, Journey, Form

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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

  Justina Chen

  Beautiful, Travel, Mind

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• The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

  Britney Spears

  Funny, Travel, Sea

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• Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

  Robin Leach

  Travel, Bangkok, Persons

  "Rish & Famous". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

  Helen Hayes

  Travel, Morning, Coffee

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Men

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 135-137), 2013.

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• After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

  Jim Harrison

  Travel, Reality, Perception

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

  George Eliot

  Travel, Integrity, Journey

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.765, Booklassic

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  We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Jukebox, Homesick, Nostalgia

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

  Vera Nazarian

  Travel, Home, Land

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  We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Travel, Jukebox, Road Trip

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

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• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Sports, Hope

  Virginibus Puerisque "El Dorado" (1881)

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Letter to Russell Fritz, April 1992.

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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Positive, Travel, Attitude

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Travel, Memorable

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.481, Delphi Classics

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• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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