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Quotes About Wanderlust

We're leaving, I told her one July afternoon. We? You and I? Where are we going, young Master Paul? Do you have your belongings tied up in a red-spotted handkerchief on a stick?
~ Julian Barnes
Maybe they just didn't have anywhere they needed to go.
~ Julianna Baggott
She said she didn't want rice. She didn't want anything anymore. Not a thing. But every once in a while she got a faraway look in her eyes and he knew she was thinking of some other place. A better place. Just once, she told him, I'd like to look out the window and see the sea.
~ Julie Otsuka
His father had promised to show him the world. They'd go to Egypt, he'd said, and climb the Pyramids. They'd go to China and take a nice long stroll along that Great Wall. They'd see the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Colosseum in Rome and at night, by the light of the stars, they'd glide through Venice in a black wooden gondola. The moon above, he sang, is yours and mine...
~ Julie Otsuka
Still, we often talked on the farm of the Safaris that we had been on. Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain, like the features of a friend.
~ Karen Blixen
If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari again.
~ Karen Blixen
Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.
~ Tash Aw
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
~ Jack Kerouac
Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.
~ Johnny Cash
No man ever got lost on a straight road.
~ Abraham Lincoln
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
~ Herman Melville
Idle man, chases after fairy tales.
~ Rumi
Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.
~ Clive Barker
I've always traveled, man, so I'm always out and everywhere.
~ Donnis
A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.
~ Jessica Brown Findlay
Travel is not about money, it's about courage.
~ Paulo Coelho
I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days.
~ James Kavanaugh
There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road.
~ Joanna Newsom
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
~ Mary Wesley
Every once in a while, take the scenic route.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Go somewhere people only dream of in their most wildest imagination.
~ Steven Cuoco
I liked to drive around, just playing music for everyone.
~ Gia Coppola
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
~ John Muir