Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Attenborough

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

David Attenborough

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

David Attenborough

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

David Attenborough

I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

David Attenborough

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

David Attenborough

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Ambrose Bierce

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

Alice Munro

This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.

Amelia Earhart

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Anna Quindlen

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

Anna Quindlen

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Anthony Bourdain

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

Anthony Bourdain

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

Anthony Bourdain

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

Anthony Bourdain

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

Anthony Bourdain

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

Anthony Bourdain

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after,you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there- with your eyes open- and lived to see it.

Anthony Bourdain

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

Anthony Bourdain

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Anthony Bourdain

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

Andy Rooney

Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

Anatoli Boukreev

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

Anais Nin

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

Anais Nin

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

Alton Brown

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

Anita Roddick

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

Robert Frost

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

Robert Benchley

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

Robert Benchley

One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.

Robert Benchley

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Rita Rudner

Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!"

Rene Descartes

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.