Travel Quotes - Page 30

• I keep going back as if I'm looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain.

  Heather Nova

  Rain, Smell, Singing

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• In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

  Neil Young

  Night, Old Friends, Good Times

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• So how can you tell me you're lonely, and say for you that the sun don't shine? Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London. I'll show you something to make you change your mind.

  Ralph McTell

  Lonely, Hands, Shining

  Song: Streets Of London

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• Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

  Bill Bryson

  Nice, Europe, America

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.110, VNR AG

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• With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

  Carsten Jensen

  Ocean, America, Choices

  Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

  Edward Norton

  Tourism, Negative

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• No puedo seguir cantando el mismo tema, porque nena, ¿no ves que nos pasa de todo? Cada vez que te vas, te llevas un trozo de mí contigo.

  Paul Young

  Baby, Singing, Going Away

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• The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

  Henry Adams

  Tourists, Dirt, Novelty

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1516, Open Road Media

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• No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Journey, Men, Wish

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “The Haunted Baronet”, p.14, 谷月社

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• A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.

  Michael Lewis

  Running, People, Tourists

  Michael Lewis (2011). “Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• Ojalá hubiera dicho algo diferente, pero el patriarcado está tan extendido por el mundo como el racismo y la xenofobia. No podemos escondernos de él, ni siquiera aquí.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Xenophobia, Racism, Wish

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

  Elizabeth Benedict

  Fear, Giving, Kind

  Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

  Agatha Christie

  America, Revolution, Absurdity

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• I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.

  Elvis Costello

  Doors, Mind, Paradise

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• It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.

  Rick Steves

  Country, Wall, Home

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• Caminando entre la multitud, el pueblo está resplandeciente. Caleidoscopio de fuertes latidos, bajo los abrigos. Todos queríamos algo más. Buscando un sonido que no habíamos oído antes. Y decía: "Bienvenido a New York", te ha estado esperando. Es una nueva banda sonora, podría bailar este ritmo eternamente. Las luces son tan brillantes, pero nunca me ciegan.

  Taylor Swift

  New York, Light, Waiting

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• Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

  Pico Iyer

  Wordsworth, Mood, Certain

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• Cada modo de viajar tiene su aberración mental característica.

  Mary Roach

  Signatures, Aberration

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

  Tahir Shah

  Journey, Treasure, Layers

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• Si te sientes libre de fantasías, ven a vagar por el mundo conmigo, y cualquier lugar en el que nos encontremos por casualidad, será una cita. Dos para el camino, viajaremos a través de los años, coleccionando recuerdos preciosos, seleccionando souvenirs y viviendo la vida como nos plazca.

  Henry Mancini

  Memories, Live Life, Years

  Song: Two for the Road, 2004

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• Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.

  Neal Shusterman

  Exit, Jersey, Helpful

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• I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.

  Natalie Merchant

  Eye, Sight, Mind

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• It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

  Henry James

  Country, Mountain, Meals

  Henry James (2016). “The Wings of the Dove, Complete: American Literature”, p.71, 谷月社

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• Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

  Israel Shenker

  Writing, Rope, Voyages

  Israel Shenker (1974). “Words and their masters”

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• LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.

  Warren Zevon

  Dream, Home, Denver

  Song: Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Album: Mr. Bad Example, 1991

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