Renee Zellweger Quotes

Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

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.

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

I had a very strong desire to carry out adventures, but in those early days I didn't actually do any. I just dreamt about it.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.

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.

I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

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

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.