"When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own."
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"I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places."
"Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance."
"I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often."
"If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice."
"Going on means going far, going far means returning."
"The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows."
"Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of."
"You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world."
"Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?"
"The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins."
"The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel."
"In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right."
"When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him."
"All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy."
"I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime."
"The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."
"There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there."
"The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret."
"The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world."