Travel Quotes - Page 22

• Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

  William Bligh

  Summer, Strong, Adventure

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.43, BoD – Books on Demand

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

  William Bligh

  Adventure, Wind, Variables

  William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Light, Space, Energy

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.

  Robert Breault

  Inspiring, Sides, Helping

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• Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.

  Robert Breault

  Inspiring, Add, Each Day

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• No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Baby, Witty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

  George P. Shultz

  Inspirational, Commitment, Sides

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• It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Spiritual, Women, Home

  Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Christ Legends and the Miracles of Antichrist”, p.477, Library of Alexandria

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• Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

  Peter Matthiessen

  Beautiful, Regret, Journey

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

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• Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free
  I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Calling, World

  Song: Harem Holiday

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

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Looks, Lonesome

  Song: Lonesome Road, The, Album: A Swingin' Affair!

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• I'm leaving on a jet plane
  Don't know when I'll be back again

  John Denver

  Song, Leaving, Jet Planes

  "Leaving on a Jet Plane" (song) (1967)

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• I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

  Bill Bryson

  Cities, Arriving, Evening

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

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• Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moving, Tourism, Particular

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Real, Atlas, Pieces

  Evelyn Waugh (1934). “Ninety-two Days: Travels in Guiana and Brazil”, Serif Publishing

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• Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

  Bill Bryson

  Memorable, Pessimism, Natural

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

  Paul Theroux

  Memorable, Stories, Narrative

  Paul Theroux (2011). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.66, Penguin UK

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• The journey is my home.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Home, Journey

  Muriel Rukeyser (1957). “One Life”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

  Minor White

  Photography, Heart, Cameras

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• The world is my lobster.

  Keith O'Neill

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Police, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Life, Change, Moving

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• Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

  William T. Piper

  Dog, Baby, Nature

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• The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

  Bill Gates

  Brother, Writing, Airplane

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• The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Imagination, Valleys, World

  Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.95, Verso

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