“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”
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American writer 1920–2012Related quotes
“The travel writer seeks the world we have lost — the lost valleys of the imagination.”
Alexander Cockburn
(1941–2012) Leftist journalist and writer
"Bwana Vistas," Harper’s (August 1985), reprinted in Corruptions of Empire (1988).
“Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.”
Original: (pt) Viajar? Para viajar basta existir. [...] Para quê viajar? Em Madrid, em Berlim, na Pérsia, na China, nos Pólos ambos, onde estaria eu senão em mim mesmo, e no tipo e género das minhas sensações?
A vida é o que fazemos dela. As viagens são os viajantes. O que vemos não é o que vemos, senão o que somos.
Source: The Book of Disquiet, p. 360
Context: To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. […] Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?
Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
Hilaire Belloc
(1870–1953) writer
As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) edited by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 829
As quoted in Traveling for Her: An Inspirational Guide (2008) by Amber Israelsen, p. 2
Variant: I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this — we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
“This is a long tough road we have to travel.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Letter to Vernon Prichard (27 August 1942), published in The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower (1970) edited by Alfred Dupont Chandler, p. 505
1940s
Context: This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.
G. Madhavan Nair
(1943) Indian aerospace engineer
Quoted in Pallava Bagla, "India's growing strides in space," http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7374714.stm, BBC News (2008-04-30).
“Today we are visitors to the airport, tomorrow we will come here as travellers.”
Mahmoud Abbas
(1935) Palestinian statesman
Speech at Yaser Arafat International Airport (19 August 2005)