519 quotes found
“We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.”
“I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside an...”
“Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.”
“I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. I...”
“Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies”
“I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.”
“I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.”
“People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.”
“Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice”
“..luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That ...”
“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...”
“Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.”
“We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....”
“Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.”
“I was headed out down a long bone-white road, straight as a string and smooth as glass and glittering and wavering in the heat and humming under the tires like a plucked nerve. I was doing seventy-...”
“Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.”
“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”
“Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.”
“One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.”
“I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. Its the least you can do, really, as a poli...”
