Quotes and Sayings About Travel
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I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
-- A. A. Milne -
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
-- A. A. Milne -
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
-- A. A. Milne -
Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.
-- A. E. Housman -
Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
-- A. R. Ammons -
The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.
-- Adam Carolla -
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
-- Adam Smith -
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
-- Agnes Repplier -
it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
-- Agnes Repplier -
abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.
-- Agnes Repplier -
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
-- Agnes Repplier -
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?
-- Al Stewart -
On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
-- Al Stewart -
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
-- Alain de Botton -
Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.
-- Alain de Botton -
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
-- Alan Rickman -
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
-- Alan Turing -
My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred
-- Alanis Morissette -
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.
-- Albert Camus -
Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
-- Albert Camus -
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
-- Albert Einstein -
The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self- government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.
-- Albert J. Beveridge -
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
-- Aldo Leopold
