Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

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

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

I just want pieces of the world.

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

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

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

I think once you start traveling, you don't stop.

Let's face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

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

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.

If I don't travel, if I stay at home for a week, I would go out of my mind. That is just the way I am. I love to be on the move, and I am fortunate that I have friends all over the world.