Peter Mayle Quotes

When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.

I love Barbados, it's really relaxing.

My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.

My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.

I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

I've shot in Hawaii a few times, and it's always magical.

We should have been born in the Caribbean. We like the heat.

I've done a bunch of consulting; I've actually spent time in Singapore, England, Denmark, all over.

Anywhere warm would be ideal for me to shoot 'Imposters!' Thailand would be fantastic.

I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can. And I visit with community as frequently as possible, given the demands on me. I meet with kids. I meet with adults. I try to spend time and to listen to people talk about their lives.

From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my father's from. I've traveled a lot, and having that sort of background probably increased the chance that I was going to remain curious as an adult about people who are different.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.

As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a lot more items, but of course I am from the Dominican Republic, so I love the warm weather.

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.

Hawaii ain't a bad place to work.