Travel Quotes - Page 25

• An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Teaching, Home

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• More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

  Joseph Lelyveld

  Country, Workout, Food

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• When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

  David Blunkett

  Exercise, Giving, Stubborn

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• When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.

  Rumi

  Advice, Asks, Traveler

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• I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

  Bruce Dern

  People, Lessons, Six

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• I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

  Parker Stevenson

  Sports, People, Excited

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• No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

  August Strindberg

  Memories, Car, Matter

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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• When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Looks, Brighter, Travel And Love

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.50, Macmillan

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• We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Jobs, Sex

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home

  Phil Cousineau

  Home, Answers, Seekers

  Phil Cousineau (2012). “The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred”, p.8, Conari Press

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• I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to

  Bob Seger

  Thinking

  Song: Katmandu, Album: Beautiful Loser

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• Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

  Paul Theroux

  Reality, Delay, Dirt

  Paul Theroux (2009). “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.

  Milan Kundera

  Two, Space, Tourism

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• Don't LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life

  Robin Sharma

  Life, Time, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 03, 2016

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• Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

  Simon Raven

  Life Is Short, World, Wide

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• I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

  Che Guevara

  Destiny, Facts, Conformity

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

  K. D. Lang

  Keys, World, Granted

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• Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

  Anna Godbersen

  Way, Ships, Cruise

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• I have not told the half of what I saw.

  Marco Polo

  Half, Saws, Polo

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• There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

  Daniel Goldin

  Future, Air, Alternatives

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• I learn much more by traveling by myself.

  Roberto Cavalli

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• It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

  Frances Mayes

  Responsibility, Language, Thrilling

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• It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

  Peg Bracken

  Funny, Easier, Companion

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

  Simon Winchester

  Land, Profound, Tasks

  Simon Winchester (2004). “Korea: a walk through the land of miracles”, ePenguin

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• You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

  A. A. Gill

  Years, World, Draws

  A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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