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Quotes About Souvenirs

Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the various places I visit.
~ Michael Dirda
I travel a lot. So my clothes are from all over the world. I pick up something from every place I visit.
~ Neeti Mohan
I don't know why, but I collect the hand sanitizers in every country that we visit.
~ Ron Mael
When I was young and visited England with my auntie, as somebody who was football crazy, I simply had to come back with a shirt. I can't remember why, but I came back with an Arsenal shirt and my brother had a Manchester United one.
~ Per Mertesacker
If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with.
~ Alain Ducasse
France is fighting for 'La Patrie'; England is fighting for commerce; Italy is fighting to get a slice of Austria, and America is fighting for souvenirs.
~ Joseph E. Persico
Have you ever been to Mexico City and haggled with the locals over souvenirs? Well, in Peru, you had to negotiate like that to get the freshest fish at the market.
~ Nobu Matsuhisa
Most of my jewellery is what I picked up in India.
~ Vidya Vox
I actually have a piece of the wardrobe of most of the characters that I've played. I always ask for something.
~ Rodrigo Santoro
Shop on your travels; that way, you can have an exclusive wardrobe.
~ Anita Hassanandani Reddy
I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.
~ Jared Harris
I have some special things at home, but not too many. I've got two shirts framed - that's all - my first Premiership final with Saracens and my first England cap. They're not signed by anyone; they're not even washed. They stink!
~ Owen Farrell
Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through which successive people have passed like tenants, leaving behind memories, habits, scars, skills, and other souvenirs.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I'm always just carrying a Tupperware cup, ever since my mom went to a Tupperware party and got 'em. I've left them strewn all over the U.S. and Europe. I drink iced tea out of them.
~ Si Robertson
Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Whenever I go someplace I always buy something, collect something, to help me remember the trip. So I guess I collect mementos from my many travels.
~ Wendell Pierce
Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.
~ Sheherazade Goldsmith
We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.
~ Bernhard Langer
I'm not a big fan of the tchotchkes. It always reminds me of a grandma's stuffy home with a million Santa dolls.
~ Jeremiah Brent
I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.
~ Jared Harris
Is that Rococo, Pascal?" Chrissie said as she stood by the missus's desk, peering into the nests of pigeonholes and cubbies. "Oh, don't touch there or you'll be shot," Pascal said, because it was where the missus kept her souvenirs, love letters from men before him, locks of hair, dried shamrock, and the words of songs that she rehearsed for her parties. Her family was musical
~ Edna O'Brien
I collect a lot of clothes when I travel around the world.
~ Theophilus London
What exactly did you find in Atlanta?" Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. "Some peach preserves. A couple of T-shirts. A snow globe. And, um, these not-really-Chinese handcuffs." Annabeth forced herself to stay calm. "How about you start from the top—of the story, not the backpack.
~ Rick Riordan
The posters and rock-star buttons and banners were valueless without the perspective of the mind that had attached significance to them. Souvenirs have no worth without nostalgia, after all. They're meaningless if a memory isn't linked to them.
~ David Morrell