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- No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?
- Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality
- Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
- Paul Theroux (1941 - ), in The Washington Post
- A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
- George Moore
- Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
- I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
- Jacqueline Cochran (1910 - 1980)
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Little by little, one travels far.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
- When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915, chapter 1
- I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.
- Wil Wheaton, WIL WHEATON dot NET, 12-16-2013
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