Quotes About Exploration

I'm interested in doing anything that teaches me something.

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.

My mom and my aunties are really devout Christians. My mom married a Muslim when I was 12, so I got teachings from both sides and then other sides because I wanted to find out which way to go. So not only Christianity and Islam, but Confucianism, Shintoism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Judaism. I tried to read everything.

While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing.

I am not interested in the Italian national team. I prefer to have a new experience, outside of Italy.

It's worth it," she said. "There are some amazing reefs and sea life there." Jacob still looked baffled. "Do you want to be a marine biologist or something?" "No. I just want to see it." "Why?" "Because it's there. Because it's something in the world I haven't experienced yet.

That journey had also gone via Seattle. I was starting to believe that city was a gateway to obscure places.

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

I'm on a search for my future ex-wife.

Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing.

A French writer once observed that, "in the new colonies, the Spanish start by building a church, the English a tavern, and the French a fort.

because dreaming backwards can carry a man through some dark rooms...

You just been travelin'.

When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

Tree limbs scraped at her face and arms, snagged and pulled at her jeans and backpack. Thick wild growth, practically impossible to walk through. But Paige kept moving, banging her walking stick against the trees and brush, feeling herself moving in a downward slope.

Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

Fear is for people who don't get out very much.

Leidsedwarsstraat in Amsterdam

Regardless of your journey, you can put a little pilgrim in your travels and find your own personal jubilation.