All Quotes By Tag: Travel
“All worries are less with wine.”
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“You need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.”
“It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.”
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“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
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“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..”
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“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.”
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“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
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“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.”
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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
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“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”
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“Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.”
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“…there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.”
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“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.”
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“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
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