Quotes About Exploration

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.

I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.

A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better.

People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.

I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

As a chef and avid traveler, meeting new people and sharing a meal with the intent to learn more about their culture is important to me.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enough information to evaluate these concepts and not be like travelers in a foreign land who compare everything with their own hometown.

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.

It's not good for you to be barred from traveling to certain places in your head because some skeleton is in the closet.

Cooking is like fashion. Always, I like to try to change. If I'm traveling in a different country - to Australia, the Bahamas, Budapest, Moscow - and I see a new ingredient, I like to try it in a new dish.

I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It gives you a new perspective on the world.

I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they've left me.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being able to enjoy the cities I'm in.

You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

I love people! I am a people person. I am a very curious human being. I am very interested in what people have to say. I love cultures, too, so I am always traveling.