Quotes About Travel

Today, nothing remains of these gradations. Air travel tears us violently out of snow and cold and hurls us that very same day into the blaze of the tropics.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Vain mustalaisilla ja rosvoilla ja huijareilla on tunnuslauseenaan, että sinne, missä kerran on käyty, ei pidä koskaan tulla toista kertaa.

pedal cars, so it went quickly. I was at my Order?s new chapter house on our mission farm at Drumheller, and I carried it on snowshoes and skis over the mountain passes and down to Barony Vernon in the Okanogan country. Then by horse and rail to the Columbia and Portland. I came all the way myself rather than handing

She eats her whole packet of mints before the plane even takes off.

Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.

Deep bonding is a gift the road alone gives to those who honor it and travel down it with respect.

Y es que acababa de ver emerger del remolino de las nubes la figura de una seductora mujer de cierta edad, con sari de brocado verde y oro, brillante en la nariz y moño alto perfectamente defendido por la laca contra la presión del viento de las alturas, que viajaba cómodamente sentada en alfombra volante.

in the exotic simplicities of travel I was able to find a modicum of peace. But, in the end, tourism ceased to satisfy; curiosity began to niggle; Let's find out, I told myself, what really goes on around here.

I spoke no Spanish, so I was unable to haggle with the taxi-drivers. 'Benengeli,' I said, and the first cabbie shook his head and walked away, spitting copiously. The second named a number that had no meaning for me. I had come to a place where I did not know the names of things or the motives for men's deeds. The universe was absurd. I could not say 'dog', or 'where?', or 'I am a man'. Besides, my head was thick, like a soup.

Have you ever traveled, beyond all mere metaphors, to the Mountain of Shame and stayed for a thousand years? I do not recommend it.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

I think a any person who has a high profile job or who travels all the time or who has a lot of stress associated with their job can be difficult to be in a relationship with.

The journey is my home.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.

Sir," suddenly exclaimed the countess, after their walk had continued ten minutes in silence, "is it true that you have seen so much, travelled so far, and suffered so deeply?" "I have suffered deeply, madame," answered Monte Cristo. "But now you are happy?" "Doubtless," replied the count, "since no one hears me complain.

When we show a friend a city one has already visited, we feel the same pride as when we point out a woman whose lover we have been.

After about ten minutes' silence, she suddenly said: "Is it true that you have seen much, travelled far, and suffered deeply?" "I have suffered deeply, madame," answered Monte Cristo. "But now you are happy?" "Doubtless," replied the Count, "since no one hears me complain." "And has your present happiness softened your heart?" "My present happiness equals my past misery," said the Count.

relates that on his first visit to M.

the southern countries in which d'Artagnan had hitherto

To jaunte it was necessary (among other things) to know exactly where you were, and where you were going, or you had no hope of arriving alive anywhere.

With silver and a wagon to take you to Boston or New York. I can keep the girl.