15 Travellers Quotes for You to Enjoy

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. Thomas Wolfe

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. Michael Palin

Best Writing Think Some Modern Now Travellers

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected. Bayard Taylor

Me Emotions Assume Strike Several Must Cases Feel Since Indulge Forced Devotional Read Reverence Affected Accounts Being Cannot Which Many Describe Found Travellers Awe Jerusalem Here

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers. Carl Clinton Van Doren

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. Ernest Thompson Seton

Death Me Game Hardships Starved Dreadful Some Cases Had Abundant Who Grounds Barren Even Suffered Travellers Consequence

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. Fanny Kemble

Both business and leisure travellers are enjoying unprecedented levels of choice. Gillian Tans

Business Unprecedented Both Leisure Choice Travellers Enjoying Levels

I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like writers do - with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I'd take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other travellers. Jane Birkin

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide. Jeremy Thomas

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. Mary Wortley Montagu

Before Nothing Say Circumstances Laughed Tell Has-Been Fabulous Observed New Said Been Dull Very Romantic Anything Us Hard Travellers

If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness. Pico Iyer

Happiness Kindness Me Natural People King Country National Before Too About Hospitality Talk Affluent Often Want Places Poorest Product Gross Certainly Shower Many Found Travellers

I will become the greatest, because all travellers have to be able to adapt. That quality, adaptability, is essential to that way of life. Not many boxers have it but I can adapt before a fight to the opponent, during the fight if necessary. Tyson Fury

Life Fight Quality Will Become Before Way Able Because Boxers Greatest Opponent Essential Many Travellers Necessary Adapt Adaptability

Rather than allowing Roma, Travellers and homeless people to be picked off, all those of us who fear the criminalisation of trespass should join forces with them, protecting their rights while we defend our own. George Monbiot

And I can tell you from firsthand experience that our train system is a mess. Carriages are full of unhappy travellers packed together like sardines, who have inexplicably paid for the privilege of being incarcerated. Nish Kumar

You Together Experience Unhappy Our I Can System Tell Like Mess Firsthand Train Privilege Being Packed Paid Full Who Travellers

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