Traveler Quotes - Page 20

• Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Progress, Together, Meals

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• The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.

  Hyder Akbar

  Country, Land, Identity

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• Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Two, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.419, Penguin

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• There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Feelings, Who We Are

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• Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.

  Chris Matthews

  Opportunity, People, President

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• Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.

  Paul Theroux

  Strong, Book, Writing

  Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Mind, Example

  Jonathan Swift (2005). “Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.253, Prestwick House Inc

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• Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

  Antonio Machado

  Travel, Time, Journey

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• I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

  John Muir

  Book, Mind, Attention

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.94, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Country

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Essential Einstein”, Pomegranate

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• He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Eye, Long

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• Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.

  Augustus Toplady

  Christian, Race, Giving

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• The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism.

  Phil Cousineau

  Moving, Heart, Essence

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• When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

  Mike Greenberg

  New York, Book, Writing

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• A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.

  Wang Wei

  Dream, Travel, Night

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• Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in the magnificent temple of Ipsambul in Nubia. He says that a very exact representation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is to be seen in that cave, and that the serpent climbing round the tree is especially delineated, and the whole subject of the tempting of our first parents most accurately exhibited.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Fall, Intelligent, Garden

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• A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.

  Paul Theroux

  Wonderful, Sore Throat, Boast

  Paul Theroux (1989). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

  e. e. cummings

  Travel, Memorable, Three

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• Hymns are companions for life travelers.

  Andy Griffith

  Hymns, Companion

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• Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light

  Dan Fogelberg

  Blessed, Journey, Light

  Song: Nexus, Album: The Innocent Age, 1981

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• I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

  Said Nursi

  Independent, Duty

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• From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.

  William Peter Blatty

  Men, House, Black

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• It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Country, Jobs

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.

  William Moulton Marston

  Self, Qualms About, Water

  "The American Scholar Winter", 1943/4 issue, (pp. 35-44), 1943.

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• As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

  Rick Steves

  Humanity, Essentials, Culture

  Rick Steves (2014). “Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act”, p.302, Avalon Travel

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