Richard Ford 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'm kind of addicted to moving.

You know, I go around the country a lot.

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

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.

I'm a bit of a nomad anyway, so I find it quite easy to settle in places very quickly.

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.

I do get around. Geographically, that is.

I tend to write more when I travel.

In the United States a man builds a house to spend his latter years in it and he sells it before the roof is on. He plants a garden and lets [rents] it just as the trees are coming into bearing. He brings a field into tillage and leaves other men to gather the crops. He embraces a profession and gives it up. He settles in a place which he soon afterward leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere. If his private affairs leave him any leisure he instantly plunges into the vortex of politics and if at the end of a year of unremitting labour he finds he has a few days' vacation, his eager curiosity whirls him over the vast extent of the United States, and he will travel fifteen hundred miles in a few days to shake off his happiness.

The established Authority of any government in America, and the policy of Government at home, are both insufficient to restrain the Americans .... They acquire no attachment to Place: But wandering about Seems engrafted in their Nature; and it is a weakness incident to it, that they Should for ever imagine the Lands further off, are Still better than those upon which they are already settled.

I never travelled when I was younger.

I'm a well-travelled person.

My sister and I grew up all over India, in quaint little towns, especially in the north and the east. Moving every two years made me very outgoing and very adaptable.

There's a difference in how I feel when I'm travelling and when I'm sitting still. I've been doing it for such a long time it has become a part of my life. It gets a bit hectic depending on where I am, you know, like there's different parts of the world that's more stimulating than other parts.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.

My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

I love the traveling, of course. Not the flying, but the actual traveling.