Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Jenkins

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

Mark Jenkins

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

Mark Jenkins

Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

Marguerite Yourcenar

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

Marianne Faithfull

There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.

Neil Armstrong

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Naomi Shihab Nye

The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.

Oprah Winfrey

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

Oliver Goldsmith

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

Margaret Atwood

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Mark Twain

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

Mark Twain

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.

Mark Twain

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Mark Twain

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

Mark Twain

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides; and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side.

Leonardo da Vinci

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

Leonardo da Vinci

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed of the union of proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

Leonardo da Vinci

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

Leonardo da Vinci

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

Oscar Wilde

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

Paul Prudhomme

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

Paul Fussell

A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.

Paul Fussell

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

Paul Fussell

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

Paul Fussell

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

Paris Hilton

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.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

Oscar Wilde

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Oscar Wilde

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.