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Quotes About Wanderlust

I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
~ Diana Ross
Sometimes I sneak out into the streets alone, like Princess Jasmine in 'Aladdin.'
~ Jacob Zachar
A couple times a year, I get in the car, and I'll drive 1,000 miles cross-country, going through side streets. I'll stay off the highways as much as possible. And I realize it's a huge country, and for us to be in so many places in the country is an amazing thing.
~ Fred DeLuca
I love walking the streets of New York.
~ Paul Pierce
Since the time I have graduated from college, I don't think I have stayed in my house for two days at a stretch.
~ Abhinav Shukla
One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.
~ Edward Burnett Tylor
There's something attractive about making people temporarily forget their actual age by taking them out of their normal lives so completely. Doesn't travel, by its very nature, strive to do this?
~ Lawrence Osborne
My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.
~ Gus Van Sant
I loved going on the road... I think that's something everybody ought to experience one day - not necessarily as an artist, but just to get out and see the country.
~ Thomas Rhett
I am unboreable in the great outdoors.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I love being outdoors and trekking around.
~ Mike Schultz
I like out, I like the outside world.
~ Martin Freeman
So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.
~ Tom Petty
the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by
~ Tom Waits
slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails
~ Tom Waits
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
~ Tom Waits
Maybe there´s no home, just road´s end.
~ Unknown
But where was home for this boy who had hunted heaven?
~ Tony Hillerman
I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things in new ways and how to get along in places you don't already know inside out. I want to put some life in you...
~ Tove Jansson
The voice of the waves was now mixed with strange sounds; laughter, running feet and the clanging of great bells far out to sea. Snufkin lay still and listened. dreaming and remembering his trip round world. Soon I must set out again, he thought. But not yet.
~ Tove Jansson
What are you thinking of discovering?" Moomintroll cleared his throat and felt very proud. "Oh, everything," he said. "Stars, for example!" Snufkin was deeply impressed. "Stars!" he exclaimed. "Then I must come with you. Stars are my favorite things. I always lie and look at them before I go to sleep, and wonder who is on them and how one could get there. The sky looks so friendly with all those little eyes twinkling in it.
~ Tove Jansson
Where's your home then?" asked the Snork Maiden. "Nowhere," said Snufkin a little sadly, "or everywhere. It depends how you look at it.
~ Tove Jansson
When they reached the top of the hill they turned and looked down at the valley. Moominhouse was just a blue dot, and the river a narrow ribbon of green: the swing they couldn't see at all. "We've never been such a long way from home before," said Moomintroll, and a little goose-fleshy thrill of excitement came over them at the thought.
~ Tove Jansson
Mutta Muumipappa oli kuullut, etteivät hattivatit riitele koskaan. Ne ovat luonteeltaan hiljaisia, ja niitä kiinnostaa vain päästä eteenpäin niin kauas kuin mahdollista. Mieluimmin aina taivaanrantaan tai maailmanloppuun saakka, mikä luultavasti merkitsee samaa.
~ Tove Jansson