Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much. — Lucy R. Lippard
Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in. — Andrew Zimmern
Traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land. — Moroccan Proverbs
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen
To travel is to take a journey into yourself. — Danny Kaye
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go. — Andrew Evans
Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things. — Gary Jennings
Travel brings power and love back into your life. — Rumi
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battuta
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. — Miriam Beard
A wise traveller never despises his own country. — Carlo Goldoni
The further you travel, the more you feel part of a big group of people. — Sergei Krikalev
Local Quotes
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. — William Blake
We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously. — Grace Lee Boggs
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada. — Farley Mowat
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders. — Bill Hybels
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one. — Richard Dawkins
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. — Al Smith
Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.
I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy. — Walter Matthau
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. — Alfred E. Smith
Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of. — Jamie Oliver
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. — Harry Seidler
Local Food Quotes
We should focus on eating food that is in season and local, as it is often more nutrient-dense and better for the environment. — Steven Gundry
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. — Fredric Jameson
Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up! — Rachael Ray
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally. — Wendell Berry
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood. — Barbara Kingsolver
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found. — Alfred Russel Wallace
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food. — Winona LaDuke
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman. — Alice Waters
Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture. — Rick Bayless
There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option. — Alison Sweeney
Travel Abroad Quotes
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Chief Seattle
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. — Susan Sontag
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. — Marcel Proust
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. — Jane Austen
Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire — Robert W. Service
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. — Bill Bryson
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. — Terry Pratchett
Travel Explore Quotes
When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! — Yuri Gagarin
Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way !
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. — John Steinbeck
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. — T. S. Eliot
We are what our thougts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation. — Ellison Onizuka
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. We've talked about it before and speculated about it, and it finally has occurred. We hoped we could push this day back forever. — John Glenn
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. — John Hope Franklin
This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful. — Hermann Oberth
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world. — Shams Tabrizi
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. — Charles Spurgeon
Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. — Walt Whitman
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Saint Augustine
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world. — Kendrick Lamar
In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself. — Frantz Fanon
What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music and make a living off it and never have to do anything else. Being able to do music full time and travel the world and share this music with everybody. That's the dream. — G-Eazy
Love Travel Quotes
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama
There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. — Jo Walton
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. — Rainer Maria Rilke
The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney
We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. — Paulo Coelho
I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry. — Dorothy Day
Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. — M. Scott Peck
Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station. — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
Local News Quotes
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors. — Jessica Savitch
The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap. — Ray Bradbury
My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it. — Rupert Murdoch
If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover. — Maria Menounos
Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news. — Tabitha Soren
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. — Robert Waterman McChesney
Ive been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. Im 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues. — George Noory
In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel. — Emily Procter
I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors. — Sayings
Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates. — Reed Hundt
Travel Journey Quotes
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. — Walt Whitman
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! — Hunter S. Thompson
Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey. — Anthony of Padua
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. — Gloria Gaither
One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance. — Ben E. King
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. — Harun Yahya
Adapting eating schedules during travel to align with local time zones is crucial for circadian adjustment. — Gary Brecka
Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel; it means have a place and get involved in what can be done in that place. That's the only way we're going to have a representative democracy in America. Nobody stays anywhere long enough to take responsibility for a local community. — Gary Snyder
The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals. — Zach Braff
A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth. — Rebecca Solnit
I was shopping at my local mall in Dallas that I've gone to for like three years now. And everyone was like "Oh my God, who's that? Who's that?" And I was like whatever, because you know, there are like 20 people traveling with me. It's like I have an entourage following me -- which is so funny. — Cheyenne Kimball
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps. — Carl Honore
As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head. — Art Buchwald
The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand. — William Trogdon
I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there. — Howard Baker
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country. — Mary Wesley
Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services. — John Hutton
I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect. — Nelson Mandela
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection! — Yoko Ono
Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities. — Jimenez Lai
I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals. — Chali 2na
Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports. — Bryan Cranston
Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things. — Josiah Tucker
If you get a chance, whenever you're traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don't buy your comics online 'cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids. — Nicolas Cage
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the city-states could vary widely. This led the Sophists to raise the question of what was natural and what was socially induced. By doing this, they paved the way for social criticism in the city-state of Athens. — Jostein Gaarder
It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population. — Rick Riordan
By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world. — Alain de Botton
The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand. — William Least Heat-Moon
I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world. — Christa B. Allen
I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about. — Dave Barry
I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office. — Juliana Hatfield
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it. — Tahir Shah
It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book. — Mary Roach
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once. — Anthony Bourdain
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