Travelers Quotes (page 4)
![John Burroughs quote: "Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no..."](/pic/76412/600x316/quotation-john-burroughs-travel-and-society-polish-one-but-a-rolling.jpg)
![Fanny Burney quote: "Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at..."](/pic/75410/600x316/quotation-fanny-burney-traveling-is-the-ruin-of-all-happiness-theres-no.jpg)
![Jerzy Kosinski quote: "Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of..."](/pic/61613/600x316/quotation-jerzy-kosinski-travel-gives-me-the-opportunity-to-walk-through.jpg)
![Ramakrishna quote: "Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will..."](/pic/23861/600x316/quotation-ramakrishna-travel-in-all-the-four-quarters-of-the-earth-yet.jpg)
![Francis Bacon quote: "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the..."](/pic/10633/600x316/quotation-francis-bacon-travel-in-the-younger-sort-is-a-part-of.jpg)
![Julian Barnes quote: "He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of..."](/pic/352058/600x316/quotation-julian-barnes-he-didnt-really-like-travel-of-course-he-liked.jpg)
Still, despite all this, traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless, newborn baby--I just don't care what it puts me through....
Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates...
Kathy Acker