Travel Quotes - Page 34

• All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Water, Born

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• I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

  Henry Rollins

  World, Want, Get Up

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• We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

  Adam Gopnik

  Swim, Firsts, Language

  Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

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• Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen.

  Mark Hertsgaard

  Havens, Knows

  Mark Hertsgaard (2009). “Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future”, p.16, Broadway Books

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• I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

  Joan Collins

  Children, Three, Want

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• Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.

  Michael Mewshaw

  Home, Alive, Way

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• I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Funny, Air, Insightful

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• Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven't been in a car since 1965.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Car, Insightful

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• Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Wings, Insightful

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• I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.

  Les Dawson

  Funny, Prayer, Sick

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• In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Differences, Insightful

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• Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.

  Kenny Everett

  Funny, Insightful, Doe

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• There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Home, Insightful

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• For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

  David Lyons

  Littles, Niche, Wonderful

  "David Lyons and Summer Glau Interview THE CAPE". Interview, collider.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?

  Gregory Colbert

  Stars, Looks, Vastness

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• Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else

  Miriam

  Surprise, Bizarre, Similarity

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• One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

  Miriam

  Japan, Delicate, Ifs

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• Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.

  Dean Stockwell

  Opportunity, Mind, Peru

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• It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.

  Frank Smythe

  Nature, Yellow, Space

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• Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.

  Tom Hornbein

  Nature, Orange, Rocks

  Peter Potterfield, Tom Hornbein (2003). “Everest”, p.141, The Mountaineers Books

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• Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.

  Ed Viesturs

  Nature, People, Mountain

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• But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

  Jon Krakauer

  Nature, Energy, Care

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.

  Reinhold Messner

  Nature, Tired, Agony

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• The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Giving, Moisture

  Leonardo (da Vinci), Irma A. Richter, Thereza Wells (2008). “Notebooks”, p.344, Oxford University Press

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• Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Variation, Branches

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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