Travel Quotes - Page 32

• You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.

  Will Ferguson

  Men, Hands, Ears

  Will Ferguson (2010). “Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada”, p.220, Vintage Canada

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• On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Country, Lonely, Class

  "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (1911)

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• The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.

  Rosita Forbes

  Journey, Rivers, Track

  Rosita Forbes (1935). “From Red Sea to Blue Nile: a thousand miles of Ethiopia”

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• I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.

  Ewan MacColl

  Country, Men, People

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• From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you.

  Peter Greenberg

  Abuse, Different, Return

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• It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow me down the track. And it moans so dark and low, baby ain't comin' back... It sounds like crying, it sounds like letting go. Breathing and lying, sinking and dying slow. And I watch from my window, touching the cold glass sky. As the train rolls down the track, I say goodbye.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Baby

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• Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Home, Joy, Risk

  Jane Wilson-Howarth (2011). “How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling”, p.12, Travelers' Tales

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• But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

  George Harrison

  Pay The Price, Car, Gears

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• Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  People, Energy, Looks

  WhiteWalls magazine, Vol. 36-38, p. 45, 1995.

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• The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Quiet, He Man

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• Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.

  Duke Ellington

  Boards, Sugar, Hills

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• Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop, with the radio on. I'm in love with Massachusetts and the neon when it's cold outside. And the highway when it's late at night. Got the radio on, I'm like the roadrunner.

  Jonathan Richman

  Past, Night, Massachusetts

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• Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Girl, Real, Hero

  Song: Thunder Road, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

  Tahir Shah

  Two, Friendly, Facts

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• India - a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India - at least in the circles I moved in - it's natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world.

  Erin Lokitz

  Beautiful, Moving, Heart

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• It's all the same, only the names will change, everyday it seems we're wasting away. Another place, where the faces are so cold, I'd drive all night just to get back home.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Home, Night, Names

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• There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you're going to have - that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.

  Erin Lokitz

  Home, Thinking, India

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• For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Past, Blue

  Song: Space Oddity

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• I'm going to Graceland, for reasons I cannot explain. There's some part of me wants to see Graceland. And I may be advised to defend every love, every ending, or maybe there's no obligations now. Maybe I've a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland.

  Paul Simon

  Believe, May, Want

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• Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?

  Marc Cohn

  Feet, Memphis, Way

  Song: Walking In Memphis, Album: Marc Cohn

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• In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

  Tahir Shah

  Long, India, Peculiar

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback”, p.117, Lulu.com

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• If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

  Seneca the Younger

  Different, Want, Persons

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• I got ramblin', I got ramblin' on my mind. I got ramblin', I got ramblin' all on my mind. Hate to leave my baby, but you treats me so unkind.

  Robert Johnson

  Baby, Hate, Mind

  Song: Rambling on My Mind

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• When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, New York, California

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.54, Penguin

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• All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Dog, Fighting

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