Amy Tan Quotes

I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.

He that travels much knows much.

You get educated by traveling.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.

I went to India, lived, and studied.

Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.