Nicholas Sparks Quotes

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

I've been traveling the world and experiencing different places, and you always discover new things.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

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

It's hard to go. It's scary and lonely...and half the time you'll be wondering why the hell you're in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking heinie takes you. There will be boondoggles and discombobulated days, freaked-out nights and metaphorical flat tires. But it will be soul-smashingly beautiful... It will open up your life.

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

In order for me to write a scene, it's very important for me to see and experience everything with my own eyes, so yes, I was able to visit some remarkable houses and destinations while I was in China.

I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.

I like going to places that are so different than where I'm from.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

He that travels much knows much.

Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.