Jamie Oliver Quotes

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their clothes were mysterious and alluring - added to which, they could not speak a word of English. More than anything, I wanted to connect with them and embark on a vast journey of exploration.

I actually love the challenge of being in a new place where I'm so obviously the foreigner.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.

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.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

I love people! I am a people person. I am a very curious human being. I am very interested in what people have to say. I love cultures, too, so I am always traveling.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, different food. When I was 18 in 1977, I went to Europe with my accordion and discovered the pleasure of entertaining people.

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.

I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

Travel teaches tolerance.

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

It's hard when you are trying to ingratiate yourself in a completely foreign world. It takes a long time.

I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.

I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.

It was a privilege to experience life beyond the cliches and to witness the vibrancy, chaos, and multiculturalism of Bengal first hand.

One thing I look forward to is seeing new places and new people.

I speak four languages, and I've seen some of the most spectacular locations in the world and met hundreds of fascinating people.

I love experiencing new cultures and new foods.