60 Sightseeing and Inspirational Quotes for any Traveler
Presented by Yolky Eggkist and PLR Reviewer.
Here are a few sightseeing quotes and inspirational quotes to augment your Travel perspectives even if they might be limited to sightseeing.
Travel is a great adventure and the stories you can tell from such adventures can last for years. This is still true even if you are just on a sightseeing trip or tour.
One never knows what sights and scenes will impress them or remain with them until after the fact. Make it your business to observe all you can. Sometimes it can be a life changing experience.
2020 Travel Inspiration – Cinematic Reel
by Ryan Shirley
Published on Youtube on Jan 3, 2020
As we move into 2020, I hope this video can motivate and inspire you to travel somewhere new this year! These are some of my favorite clips from 2019. I started the year off living in Hawaii where I met my incredible girlfriend, as the year progressed I was able to spend time traveling in Europe to countries such as Scotland, Switzerland, and Austria. Its been a special year for me for personal growth and improved relationships with my friends and family. I hope we all can accomplish incredible things in 2020!
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. Samuel Johnson
Sightseeing Quotes
- A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing. ~ Charles Curtis
- He was like, ‘Big G, what up? Who you walking with?’ … I said, ‘Nobody. I’m just sightseeing.’ He was like, ‘Get in.’ He was going to a party, so I rode with him, then he had his driver drop me off. ~ Greg Oden
- [He also managed to squeeze in some sightseeing: visiting the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall. Still, most of his energy was expended in the classroom, where he learned how to read and write Mandarin.] After awhile, I gave up writing, … But I still could comprehend the characters. ~ Cheryl Baker
- I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence. ~ Ashley Jensen
- I don’t get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to. ~ Maria Sharapova
- I look forward to seeing you in China either for sightseeing, investment or business. ~ Hu Jintao
- I love sightseeing. ~ Joe Jonas
- I think India will be a great mix of sightseeing and relaxing, and I’ve got a feeling it will also be good for one’s soul and … ~ Emilia Fox
- I’m not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I’m on holiday. I do enough shopping when I’m at home, and like to have a complete break when I’m away. ~ Paloma Faith
- I’m not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for … or something like that. ~ Vinnie Jones
- It should be beautiful sightseeing. ~ Marvin Owings Jr
- It’s a sightseeing tour in Miami. In Palm Beach, you have buyers. ~ Daniel Berrebi
- It’s a totally different lifestyle than what we’re used to. It’s going to be an experience. We want to do a lot of sightseeing. ~ Melvin Martin
- It’s not a sightseeing tour, I can tell you that. Ian Thorpe says it’s the best place in the world to train. ~ Eddie McGuire
- More and more, we’re hearing from our customers that they don’t gamble when they come here, but they still like Las Vegas for the shows and the sightseeing. ~ Ken Pontone
- Sightseeing was … based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled. ~ Paul Theroux
- sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the notion that one is discovering the past when really one is inventing it, using a guidebook as a scenario of swift notations. ~ Paul Theroux
- That’s usually a big chunk of the sightseeing itinerary, ~ Mary Myers
- The challenge of a 10-inch-wide track is so much greater than the rambling down a jeep road, meeting a jeep, getting passed by 22 motorcycles and buzzed by a sightseeing helicopter. I’d rather get buzzed by an eagle, which happens regularly. ~ Troy Rarick
- The trip will be a lot of fun for people who love to travel as well as to dance. There’s lots of opportunity for sightseeing as well as learning about your favorite dance styles and maybe picking up a new favorite. ~ Evan Margolin
- They earned an opportunity to cheer in a parade in London, England. All-Stars spent a week in London practicing their routine and sightseeing. ~ Celeste Ryan
- This is basic, fundamental research. We have some 35 million Americans over the age of 65, … The basic purpose of why I’m going is not just to go sightseeing. ~ John Glenn
- Two men were out sightseeing, stopped at a turnout to look at the creek down below the road and saw a body. ~ Jim Amormino
- Unlike (the NASA) robots, Beagle 2 won’t be going sightseeing. It is intent on discovering where there is or was life on Mars. It is happy to trade measurements for mobility. ~ Colin Pillinger
- We have people in the band who don’t drink or do drugs… some of us like to go sightseeing. ~ Mike Shinoda
- We see Ho Chi Minh City an alternative shopping and sightseeing destination for the people of Brunei, and in return, we are also an interesting stop for Vietnamese passengers. ~ Rozman Junaidi
- Well, it wasn’t a holiday, but I had expected to do some sightseeing when I went to Haiti to film a series called … ~ Anthony Head
- We’re not on a sightseeing tour here. We have a job to do. We all have something that we want to try to accomplish. That’s really what we’re going there for. Understanding what the setting is and what the stadium is and all of that, yes, we are all aware of that. ~ Bill Belichick
- What better way than to bring teachers to Japan, give them experiences interacting with students and teachers and the community, and adding a little sightseeing? ~ Jan Jensen
- What most people are, especially now, experiencing and wanting is a balance between traditional sightseeing and faith based travel. So when they go to Italy, although they want to see the Vatican, they want to experience some nice Italian meals. ~ Kevin Wright
- You get up, train, then you have the rest of the day, maybe do some sightseeing. ~ Lauryn Williams
Thomas Jefferson Building Aerial by Carol M. Highsmith. License CC-SA-3.0
Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. dons his silver Mercury pressure suit in preparation for launch of Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) rocket. (1962)
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Western Moon setting over Mountains, High Desert, California. Image by Jessie Eastland, License: CC-SA-3.0
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~ Buddha
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~ Havelock Ellis
A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can’t read. That’s terribly troubling to me. ~ Charles Kuralt
Inspirational quotes
- “After a lifetime of world travel I’ve been fascinated that those in the third world don’t have the same perception of reality that we do.” – Jim Harrison
- “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves” – Euripides
- “Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury
- “I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.” – David Rockefeller
- “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
- “I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
- “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro
- “I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.” – Lord Dunsany
- “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener
- “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
- “Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams
- “Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.” – W. H. Auden
- “Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” – John Muir
- “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan
- “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
- “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
- “To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” – Charles Horton Cooley
- “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
- “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye
- “Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” – Louis L’Amour
- “Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
- “Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor” – Seneca
- “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ” – Anatole France
- “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – John Hope Franklin
- “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
- “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
- “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
- “Without travel “I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton
- “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” – Daranna Gidel
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
- “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
Mark Twain in Middle Life (1895) by Napoleon Sarony
Portrait photo of John Muir, 1872.
Time Is Nothing – Around The World In 343 Days (Time Lapse)
by Kien Lam
Published on Youtube on Dec 31, 2011
17 Countries. 343 Days. 6237 Photographs. One incredible journey. After I quit my job last year, I packed a bag, grabbed my camera and bought a one way ticket to London. 17 countries later, I compiled this time lapse of the many amazing places I came across.
Lauren Hutton attending the premiere of The Union at the Tribeca Film Festival. 20 April 2011. Image by David Shankbone, License: CC-SA-3.0 http://blog.shankbone.org/about/
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