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Travel Quotes
"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."
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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
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"The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few."
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"Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia."
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"I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable."
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"It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft."
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"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."
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"For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands."
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"Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water."
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"I suppose there has been nothing like the airports since the age of the stage-stops - nothing quite as lonely, as sombre-silent. The red-brick depots were built right into the towns they marked - people didn't get off at those isolated stations unless they lived there. But airports lead you way back in history like oases, like the stops on the great trade routes. The sight of air travellers strolling in ones and twos into midnight airports will draw a small crowd any night up or two. The young people look at the planes, the older ones look at the passengers with a watchful incredulity."
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"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation."
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"To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead."
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"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
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"Every traveler should make their own observation."
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"I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun."
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"Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart."
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"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."
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"Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet."
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"Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven."
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"I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see."
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"I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness."
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"New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire."
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"One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more."
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"We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey."
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"As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies."
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"There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us."
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"I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect."
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"You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that's the same as going there."
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"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
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"In relationships, the cheater is unable to trust anyone, including the cheated."
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"I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours. Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the darkness the West. I had to go."
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"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
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