Gertrude Stein Quotes

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

I would fly around a lot. I would fly around the world.

The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

It was good to travel to the other side of the world.

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.

I've been traveling around the world forever.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa, America, everywhere. I'm still a 13-year-old kid, flying.

Before I could walk, my world was a world of legs - soldiers' legs, sailors' legs, bus drivers' legs and, worst of all, little old ladies' legs. Growing up in the shop was fantastic - American GIs, Poles, Czechs, Australians, troops from all over the world came to our shop for cigarettes and cups of tea and inspired my desire to travel the world.