612 private quotes tagged travel

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hilaire Belloc

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“I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” — Michael Palin

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“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.” — Susan Sontag

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“The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.” — George Ade

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“Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.” — Henny Youngman

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“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.” — Henry Adams

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“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.” — Alphonse de Lamartine

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“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” — Lawrence Durrell

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“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” — William Hazlitt

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“Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.” — Ella Maillart

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“You get educated by traveling.” — Solange Knowles

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“The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.” — Glenn Tipton

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“My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.” — Eric Roberts

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“The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.” — William Bartram

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“Travelling expands the mind rarely.” — Hans Christian Andersen

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“Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.” — Al Boliska

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“I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.” — Petra Nemcova

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“On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.” — Lisa Snowdon

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“It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” — William Hazlitt

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“I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.” — Guy Clark

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“When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!” — David Blunkett

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“Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.” — Cynthia Ozick

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“If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.” — Ray Floyd

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“Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.” — Jan Morris

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“Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.” — Roman Coppola

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