Traveler Quotes

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

Christmas, Home, Happy

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu

Good, Plans, Intent

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
William Shakespeare

Country, Whose, Returns

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Henry David Thoreau

Speaking, Wilderness, Howling

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A wise traveler never despises his own country.
William Hazlitt

Wise, Country, Despises

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
Daniel J. Boorstin

Experience, Him, Happen

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber

Secret, Unaware, Journeys

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Franz Kafka

History, Two, Between

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Time, True, Down

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Country, Perfect, Travels

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
David Rockefeller

Education, Time, Travel

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Daily, Down, Place

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Zi

Words, Through, Find

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.
Brittany Murphy

Place, Show, Memories

Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Important, Him, Two

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Work, Hope, Same

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Alone, Himself, Goes

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
Walter Lippmann

Good, Help, Nothing

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
Paul Theroux

Great, Travel, Rather

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
Bill Brandt

I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!
Harry Melling

Great, Hate, Bad

I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.
Jean Claude Van Damme

Live, Parents, Find

I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.
Candace Bushnell

Time, Wish, Happens

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
Alan Dean Foster

Thought, Why, Wanted

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Human, Two, Big

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.
Michelle Shocked

Life, Real, Before

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
Maggie Stiefvater

Time, Movies, Wife

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
Harriet Martineau

Through, Sure, Seeing

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