Best Faraway Places Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every time you shudder from the cold or wrap yourself more tightly in your furs, it reminds me that somewhere, the sun shines more brightly than it does here. You carry it in your skin.”

Home Sun Warmth Radiance Faraway Places

Book:Girls Made of Snow and Glass

Source: Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.”

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Author:Baz Luhrmann

“Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.”

Sun Shining Someday Faraway Places

Author:Mahalia Jackson

“I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.”

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Author:Ali MacGraw

“I think that's an obligation you have, to give back no matter what happens. It actually ends up being easier when you're young than when you become successful. Suddenly you realize you've gone into a whole other realm of philanthropy, from just being a volunteer to being this person that dedicates buildings and saves lots of children in some faraway place.”

“I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraway places I possibly can, only to find the closest things to me when I get there.”

World Ends Tradition Opposites Closest End Of The World Anthropology Exotic Fieldwork Faraway Places

Author:Aleksandra Mir

“The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.”

People Feels Firsts Real Country Reason Order Victim Feel Good Developing No Reason About Yourself Environmentalism Developing Countries Biofuels Faraway Places Prius

Author:Mark Steyn

“People come up to us and ask how we knew so much about their own family... I'm talking about people from faraway places, too. I get people from Turkey and Chile coming up to me and saying I wrote about their family.”

People Asks Talking Come Up Turkeys Chile Faraway Places

Author:Paul Reiser

“I'm very involved in photographing America now, so I don't think of faraway places, as I did when I was young.”

Thinking America Young Involved Faraway Places

Author:Sam Abell

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

“Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.”

Night Advertising Agency All Night Insomnia Posters Faraway Places

Author:Charles Simic

“Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?”

Doe Faraway Places

Book:I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

Source: I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”

Source: Treasury of Thought

“You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.”

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Book:Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert

Source: Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert

“I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my own backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me... a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamor.”

“A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.”

Thinking Sleep Illusion Ideals Recovery Planes Chamber Here And There Good Place Get Well Airplanes And Flying Faraway Places

Book:The feminine eye

Source: The feminine eye

“In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or brown-skinned non-people living in faraway places such as Zaire and Guatemala, there was no terrorism. When the weak attacked the powerful, spectacularly on 9/11, there was terrorism.”

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Author:John Pilger

“Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating.”

“The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.”

“As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.”

Children Doe Library Credit Cards Exotic Credit Card Library Cards Faraway Places

Author:Sam Ewing

“My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes”

Book Stories Romance Mother Costumes Avid Place And Time Faraway Places

Author:Adriana Trigiani

“I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.”

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Author:Mark Helprin

“In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance.”

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Author:Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.