Traveler Quotes - Page 16

• the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.

  Fanny Burney

  Sex, Lines, May

  Fanny Burney (1850). “Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world”, p.233

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• A wise traveler never despises his own country.
  [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]

  Carlo Goldoni

  Wise, Country, Travel

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• I feel like I'm a time traveler from the future who has been sent back to be annoyed.

  Adam Carolla

  Annoyed, Time Travel, Feels

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• Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Islands, Tree, Java

  Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.295

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• We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Christian, Wise, Journey

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.314

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• Travelers should only read after dark.

  Robert Harbison

  Dark, Should

  Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.8, MIT Press

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• My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.

  Pam Houston

  Parent, Dollars, Bugs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Writing, Get Better, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.

  Jamie Dimon

  Hate, Mean, Doe

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
  Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
  The day returns, but nevermore
  Returns the traveler to the shore,
  And the tide rises, the tide falls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Morning, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1899). “the Compelete Poetical Works”

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• Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.

  Mary Pipher

  Country, Children, Home

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.44, Penguin

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• Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all your life . . . they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing . . . and nobody can tell you different.

  Ben Bova

  Being Yourself, Law, Space

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• So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Evil, Optimism

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.101, Penguin

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• It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Stars, Knows

  Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

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• So this ["Grant MacLaren"] was a chance to sort of go back and do a more leading man. But instead of just solving crimes like a CSI show, this leading man is, like the other travelers, not who he appears.

  Eric McCormack

  Men, Csi, Chance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Thinking, Enlightenment

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• The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.

  James Hollis

  Daddy, Doe, Middle

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• Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Ancient, Modern

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.195

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• There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Discovery, Soul

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• The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Travel, Cities, Two

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• The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Moving, Past, Night

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• As the life of the horse is in his legs, so the life of the traveler is in his feet, and good care should be taken of them.

  Juliette de Bairacli Levy

  Horse, Taken, Feet

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• I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

  Paul Theroux

  Believe, Optimism, Sunny

  Paul Theroux (2001). “Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

  David Rockefeller

  Country, Children, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Real, Heart

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