Quotes About Culture

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you've come to mow its lawns.

Travel is the best investment you can make in yourself.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.

A place is only as good as the people in it.

There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful.

The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I wanted to do a travel show in the first place.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant.

I read nasheeds (Islamic songs) in English, in Arabic. I read nasheeds even in Bangla language. Now I don't just travel to meet people from my own country but people from the entire ummah.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.