David Muir Quotes

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

I put it in the back of my mind that someday I would fly around the world.

I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

I think it's part of my personality - I love to travel; I love different cultures and philosophies and perspectives on things.

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.

One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.

For me, travel happens when I see an interesting opportunity happening.

Travelling is a key part of my life. It keeps me inspired, takes me to new places, introduces me to new sounds, and allows me to explore new environments and soundscapes.

At the end of the day, my focus will be to make the 'Evening News' as strong from an editorial perspective as it possibly can be.

In Grade 2, when we had to do a presentation in front of the class, I'd always do things about Ireland or Italy. I could draw maps; I could name all the capitals: I was completely drawn to other lands. I discovered with time that it's a thirst for other people, for otherness, for something fascinating and mysterious.

I want to see the world.