Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Janet Napolitano

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

Joss Stone

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

Carson McCullers

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Alan Dean Foster

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.

Alain de Botton

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

Alain de Botton

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

Alain de Botton

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

Alain de Botton

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Charles Darwin

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Arthur Symons

A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.

Aristophanes

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Antonio Machado

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

Antonio Porchia

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

Edmund Hillary

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

Edward Norton

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

Amelia Earhart

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

D. H. Lawrence

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

D. H. Lawrence

Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

Danny Kaye

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

David Foster Wallace

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

David Attenborough

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

David Attenborough

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

David Attenborough

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

David Attenborough

I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

David Attenborough

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

David Attenborough

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Dale Carnegie

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

e. e. cummings

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.