Ella Maillart Quotes

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

I can't stay in one place for too long.

I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world.

I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

My parents always traveled a lot with their job, so it became embedded in my nature quite early on that I would crave that constant change and traveling.

Ramblin' was in my blood.

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!

Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

I want to be living out of a suitcase in a different city every day.

I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

I'm sort of a gypsy at heart and don't like to stay in one place too long.

If I don't travel, if I stay at home for a week, I would go out of my mind. That is just the way I am. I love to be on the move, and I am fortunate that I have friends all over the world.

I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.

I've been travelling all my life.

I'm always on the road.