Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Alanis Morissette

My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred

Alan Rickman

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Al Stewart

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?

Chief Seattle

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Chief Joseph

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

David Sedaris

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

Dave Barry

Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER.

Dave Barry

Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Alan Bennett

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Chinua Achebe

If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

David Sedaris

My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.

David Mitchell

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Dave Barry

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

Bruno Latour

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

Bryan Stevenson

Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

Kevin Love

When he's healthy, Zach Randolph for the Memphis Grizzlies has always been somebody that has always been very tough to play against.

DeAngelo Williams

Memphis is a big city. You never see the same people twice.

David Johansen

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.

Mo Williams

He got out of there to Memphis during the evacuation time, so he was safe. But he went back and everything was gone.

Carmelo Anthony

They started trash talking out there. It woke us up. We started to get up and down the court. ... I was pointing at the Memphis TV guys. They was talking trash, too.

Shawn Williams

Dane proved he can play the game. He proved he's a Memphis player.

Pau Gasol

I could have played, ... I've been able to play for a while now, but Memphis wanted me to rest so I can be ready for the season. They don't really want me to play during the summer because the season is so long.

Darius Jr

They wanted to run, so we're down running because that's our style. That's Memphis basketball. We run. They wanted to run with us. We got the victory.

John Fogerty

Big train from Memphis, now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.