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Travel Quotes


"An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel."



"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."


"I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit."



"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."


"It was good to travel to the other side of the world."


"If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer."


"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."


"The best tourist is one without a camera."


"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."


"The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up."



"Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting."



"Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money."



"I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel."



"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."


"I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something."


"We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own."



"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something."



"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."


"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel."


"I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel."


"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit."


"As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby."


"David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, i.e., that part of Bali which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of people who have come all this way to see Bali."


"Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world."


"I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative."



"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti."


"For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening."



"Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country."


"Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year."
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