Quotes About Travel

that a ship is a book that can ferry you away to distant worlds.

what I'm getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a deeper connection with her surroundings. She is more invested in them -- the traveler stays longer, makes her own plans, chooses her own destination, and usually travels alone: solo travel and solo participation, although the most difficult emotionally, seem the most likely to produce a good story.

Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

The dream of everyone is playing in Spain, Madrid, or Barcelona.

I was in Spain, with Mallorca and Getafe, which were exceptional experiences.

I'd always had this romantic idea, ever since I've been writing scripts, that I would travel one day and pull up stumps, as we say in Australia. It's a cricket reference. You can Google it. Pull up stumps in some country like Italy or Spain and do my little Truman Capote thing.

I've lived in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the '80s. I don't like being settled. It's not really healthy.

I can't retire without going to Spain.

I learned a lot in Spain.

I want to play in Europe and learn another language. Spain and Italy are options.

After playing my father used to coach, we used to follow him around Spain. We used to travel with him to many cities.

I think, as musicians, that's really all we want is to keep working. We want to have a reason to be, and we want to play for as many people in this span of life that we're allowed as we possibly can, and in as many places as we possibly can.

My father was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. His family is from Spain. My father never taught me how to speak Spanish when I was little. That's very disappointing to me. I'm still planning on learning it on my own. I really want to travel to Spain and immerse myself in the culture and learn it on my own.

Spanish League is very tough, especially away matches.

When we go city by city, country by country, the majority of our hosts, our owners, are simply renting out their spare bedroom.

I speak Italian and a little bit of French. I moved to Trento, Italy, when I was around 10 to learn Italian. I have family there. I'm trying to restart my French. And then I want to get into Mandarin.

I love Europe. I don't speak a lick of French, but I speak a bit of Italian. I can get through Italy better than I get through the rest of Europe.

I want to speak Spanish fluently; that's on my bucket list.

I've made 'The Pilgrimage' - where I actually had to speak Gaelic - and I was shooting in Belfast as well.

Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.

I've been to Afghanistan and Iraq a few times, and then I've done deployments elsewhere - with Special Forces, we go all over the place.