Travel Quotes - Page 23

• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Men, Hands

  Henry David Thoreau, Michael McCurdy, Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “Walden”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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• Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.

  Junko Tabei

  Motivational, Perseverance, Nature

  "Protecting the Places We Climb" by Phil Powers, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

  Junko Tabei

  Nature, Men, Climbing

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• Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

  Junko Tabei

  Dream, Nature, Believe

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• All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

  Ellen Potter

  Adventure, Moments, Crap

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.248, Macmillan

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• I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

  Alan Davies

  Journey, Car, Tears

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• I want to feel that every trip I make has enhanced me as a person.

  Stefanie Powers

  Want, Feels, Persons

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• I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

  Sean Connery

  Moving, Looks, World

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• I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.

  Piper Perabo

  Truck

  Interview with Lori Blackman, www.edition.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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• I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.

  Boomer Esiason

  Years, Needs, Window

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• Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Life, Wise, Ignorant

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

  Arthur Frommer

  Views, Understanding, Challenges

  Arthur Frommer, Pauline Frommer (1996). “Arthur Frommer's New World of Travel”, Frommer's

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• Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Balance, Obligation

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• There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.

  Jan Morris

  Running, Dog, Cities

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• We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

  Edward Abbey

  Needs, Wilderness, Possibility

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• They change their skies,
  but not their souls
  who run across the sea.

  Horace

  Running, Sea, Sky

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• Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament

  Monica Seles

  Christmas, Sports, Journey

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

  George Eliot

  Memories, Imagination

  George Eliot, Elma Fraser Stuart (1909). “Letters from George Eliot to Elma Stuart, 1872-1880”

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• I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.

  Karlie Kloss

  Careers, World, Thanks

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• Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell

  Libba Bray

  Forever, Mind, Form

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

  Bill Bryson

  Judging, Skins, Sound

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• I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

  Peter Ustinov

  Wine, Italian, Hell

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• Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.

  Harry Golden

  Sex, Adventure, Men

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• If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Sex, Hate, Adventure

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• Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winning, Gambling, Losing

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