Traveler Quotes - Page 10

• When a man is a Traveler, the world is his house & the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, & all the people are his family

  Drew Bundini Brown

  Home, Men, Sky

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• The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Men, Practice

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Beach, Doctors, People

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• As we meet and touch, each day, The many travelers on our way, Let every such brief contact be A glorious, helpful minister.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Ministry, Each Day, Way

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• In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

  Loren Eiseley

  Voice, Devil, Desert

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.62, Library of America

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• The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Agency, Encounters

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.91, Vintage

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• When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

  Francis Bacon

  Country, Travel, Home

  Francis Bacon (1826*). “The Beauties of Bacon”, p.185

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• Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun. Such thinking robs our forerunners of their due, and us of their experience. Because then one can believe whatever one likes about the past - without having to confront the bones, potsherds, and inscriptions which tell us that people all over the world, time and again, have made similar advances and mistakes.

  Ronald Wright

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

  Ronald Wright (2006). “An Illustrated Short History of Progress”

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• In the hands of [God's] children, it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the naked. it gives to the traveler and the stranger where to lay his head. By it we may supply the place of a husband to the widow, and of a father to the fatherless. We may be a defense for the oppressed, a means of health to the sick, of ease to them that are in pain. It may be as eyes to the blind, as feet to the lame: yea, a lifter up from the gates of death!

  John Wesley

  Children, Pain, Husband

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• With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Travel, Inheritance

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.172

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• Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought.

  Eric Frank Russell

  Hazards, Infinite, Astronaut

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• Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Country, Travel, Home

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “The Sympaty of Religions”, p.16

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• Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Space, Elbows

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.58, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Wise, Travel

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• How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Travel, Regret, Wish

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• David will never go to space again. I'm glad.What did it gain the McQuarries? What has it ever gained men? Have men ever brought back more happiness from the stars? Will they ever?

  Leigh Brackett

  Stars, Men, Space

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• No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sleep, Luxury, Adventurous

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.405, BoD – Books on Demand

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• That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

  Laura Lee

  Reading, Adventure, Able

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• The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Rolling, Stones

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• Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to gather in the stars.

  Algis Budrys

  Stars, Work Out, Hungry

  Algis Budrys (2016). “The Furious Future: Stories”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• 'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hair, Land, Sky

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• Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

  Gregory Benford

  Moving, Mean, Space

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• 'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street of cheap jewellery stores, with its office messengers and lottery touts, the off-duty taxi-drivers leaning against their cars. 'It was just like being here.'

  J. G. Ballard

  Tired, Moon, Car

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• Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at the empty perspectives that I myself had seen.

  J. G. Ballard

  Loneliness, Space, Perspective

  J. G. Ballard (1962). “Memories of the space age”, Arkham House Pub

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• Sometimes just being on a beach with my loved ones is all the adventure I need. I am a happy camper and continue to be a citizen of the world. I have yet to discover other cultures, other peoples dreams and treasures. I will always be a traveler who is discovering beautiful Gaia.

  Guy Laliberte

  Beautiful, Dream, Beach

  "Mr. Blasberg's Book Corner: Gaia". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 1, 2011.

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