Carl Sagan Quotes

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

I want to be living out of a suitcase in a different city every day.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country to country, culture to culture till I feel - till I am - nothing. As it happens, I like it that way.

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'.

I think I was a nomad in another life.

Your people do not seem to like the place where they live and always want to be on the move going someplace else.

I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

Ramblin' was in my blood.

I have a mantra that people are naturally, fundamentally and inherently mobile.

My name is actually Mia Gypsy - my mum said she named me that because of everywhere I'm from. She felt that I'd always be roaming from place to place, and I've always felt like that.

I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

I love to move around. I'm not a person who likes to stay in the same place all the time.

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

Some people will always ground themselves very strongly in a piece of soil, a grandmother's property, a tiny plot of land, and that's great. But in the Age of Movement, there's no question that the number of people who don't - or can't - is growing exponentially.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.