Travel Quotes - Page 27

• I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

  Kim Novak

  Mind, Kim, Resentment

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Funny, Humorous, Airplane

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• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Wisdom, Nature, Stars

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• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

  George Eliot

  Running, Time, Book

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1155, ShandonPress

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• Travellers are just commuters with a wider perspective.

  William G. Taylor

  Perspective, Traveller

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• Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.

  Andrew Evans

  Tourists, Way, Plans

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• Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

  Maya Angelou

  Sake, Pleasure, Destination

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.8, Bantam

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• And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

  Paul Fussell

  Powerful, Teach, Moved

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• Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

  Bonnie Tyler

  Hard Work, Play Hard, Dublin

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

  Will Steger

  Dog, Honesty, Team

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• Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything was going splendidly," she later remarked, "until my bosom barked."

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Funny, Dog, Pet

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• My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car.

  Mazo de la Roche

  Funny, Dog, Car

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• She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face toward me with an apologetic expression as though to say: "I have not forgotten that you are here but there are certain pleasures I cannot share with you." Her nose never ceased its sensitive quivering.

  Mazo de la Roche

  Funny, Dog, Expression

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• To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of car keys is enough to send most any dog into a whimpering, tail-wagging frenzy.

  Jon Winokur

  Funny, Dog, Adventure

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• When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Tired, Men, London

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• Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Journey, Afterlife, World

  Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.228, Random House

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• Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

  Diane Johnson

  Thinking, Islands, People

  Diane Johnson (1993). “Natural opium: some travelers' tales”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Sun and wind and beat of sea,
  Great lands stretching endlessly...
  Where be bonds to bind the free?
  All the world was made for me!

  Adelaide Crapsey

  Wind, Sea, Land

  Adelaide Crapsey, “Adventure”

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• Whenever I travel to the South, the first thing I do is visit the best barbecue place between the airport and my hotel. An hour or two later I visit the best barbecue place between my hotel and dinner.

  Jeffrey Steingarten

  Airports, Two, Dinner

  "The Man Who Ate Everything". Book by Jeffrey Steingarten, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 1997.

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• Adventrue rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the expanse of our experience. Our ability to grow is no longer linear but becomes unrestricted to any direction we wish to run.

  Josh Gates

  Running, Wish, Comfort

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• The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

  Stacy Allison

  Nature, Climbing, Air

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• One always wonders about roads not taken.

  Warren Christopher

  Taken, Wonder, Road Not Taken

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• Strong and content I travel the open road.

  Walt Whitman

  Strong, Leaves Of Grass, Open Road

  1856 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of the Open Road', section 1.

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• I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop

  Blake Mycoskie

  Thinking

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• I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Paris, Earth, London

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.330, Oxford University Press on Demand

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