Adventurous Journeys Quotes

I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.

Travel the world and meet people. I've been fortunate enough to see so much of the world, and being able to do so has brought me so many wonderful friends and experiences. There is no better way to learn than exploring new places.

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

I mean at the world as a checklist. Once you got to a place, you check them off and if you love the spot, you might check it off twice. You'll always find your way to go back to those places.

The places that ive been, the things that i have seen - what you have as nightmares, are what i have as dreams.

A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time, having a miserable time, even better. You don't want to read a book about someone having a great time in the South of France, eating and drinking and falling in love. What you want to read is a book about a guy going through the jungle, going through the arctic snow, having a terrible time trying to cross the Sahara, and solving problems as they go.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.

We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some are about suffering. There are as many different kinds of travel books as there are novels. People think a travel book is one thing. It's many things.

How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation?