Spalding Gray Quotes

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.

Driving to Vegas is awesome... Driving home From Vegas sucks.

The places I've travelled and cultures I've experienced have been reflected in my home decor choices.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs - to see new vistas, take new tours, obtain new entrees, introduce new bacteria into our intestinal tracts, learn new words for "transfusion," and have all the other travel adventures that make us want to French-kiss our doormats when we finally get home.

It's important that we came here, just to touch base here in this great country... When I was about 16 I came with my dad for a couple of weeks and had a great time and I've wanted to come back, it's been way too long. So, I'm very happy to be here and I want to come back longer with the rest of my family.

To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive.

I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.

The greatest flight I've ever flown was coming home.

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.

Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.

I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a part of the country that I love. There's no place like home!

This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit it, wondering what it is tempts men to live in it; but anon I leave the towns behind and am lost in some boundless heath, and life becomes gradually more tolerable, if not even glorious.

For me this was never a money issue, it was about being rich in your heart. To come home, and to be in the place where your dream first started, 15 minutes away from where my grandfather built my first basketball court, is a dream come true.