Travel & Adventure: Travel Quotes

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"Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?"

John Ensign, Politician

"As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future"

Alison Lurie, Novelist

Alison Lurie

"I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours, which sticks up out of the Atlantic"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"London is a roost for every bird"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

Linus Torvalds

"Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

Linus Torvalds

"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"How long have you been away from the country? Laruja asked Ibarra. Almost seven years. Then you have probably forgotten all about it. Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect, my travels were very useful to me"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Marshall McLuhan

"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

Dan Quayle

"A wise traveler never despises his own country"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"Man, I really like Vegas!"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"I'll stay in Memphis"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"The glamour of it all! New York! America!"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

Charlie Chaplin

"He travels the fastest who travels alone"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

Rudyard Kipling

"I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place!"

Billy Connolly, Comedian

Billy Connolly

"Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much"

Beth Henley, Playwright

Beth Henley

"Paris ain't much of a town"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

Babe Ruth

"I represent Central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it"

Corrine Brown, Politician

Corrine Brown

"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

Andy Rooney

"I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling"

Ron White, Comedian

Ron White

"I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist"

Russell Baker, Journalist

Russell Baker

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

Lord Chesterfield

"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness"

Willa Cather, Author

Willa Cather

"Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy"

Jimmy Buffett, Musician

Jimmy Buffett

"I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

Nadia Comaneci

"The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff"

Britney Spears, Musician

"A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that"

Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer

Madonna Ciccone

"People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

Martin Yan

"Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

Martin Yan

"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being, though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

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