Frances Mayes Quotes

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

I enjoy travelling the world, but nowhere beats Walsall.

I'm kind of a globetrotter. I've been traveling since I was born and living in different locations.

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

Having grown up in Iceland and Los Angeles, gone to school in Europe and America, and lived and worked in London and New York, my insatiable appetite for travel has informed many of my life decisions.

I would have no problem with living in China. I like discovering new places and cultures, and I would not go alone - my family would go with me.

Australians are gypsies by nature. I've been fortunate enough to experience different regions of the world.

I spent 12 years traveling more than six months a year. I really needed to see the world.

I've been to so many beautiful countries and never got the chance to see them.

I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.

When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.

My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.

I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.

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

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

You start wanting to see a different place every day.

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.