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Travel Quotes


"I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program."


"In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place."


"But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are."


"If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere."


"The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it."


"In my errant life I roamedTo learn the secrets of women and men,Of gods and dreams.I've known all the countries of our world,I've lived a thousand lives:Many lives I lived in love, Other lives I squandered.For in my life I never traveled, All I did was wander."


"It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team."


"A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces."


"Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky."


"Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration."


"The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn."


"I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes."


"For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands."


"The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy."


"You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel."



"Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes."


"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."


"After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do."


"I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people."


"Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist."


"The best part of traveling is finding yourself."


"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work."



"I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle."


"But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen."


"I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost."


"I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year."


"Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road."


"It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States was supposed to be here in New York. We were supposed to play in Central Park right after 9-11 and when 9-11 happened obviously things changed."


"I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier."


"I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel."


"Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water."


"You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure."


"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority."


"I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them."


"Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected."


"Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around."
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