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“I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.”

Men Country Might Used Spirit Wonder Birth Travel Endure Obscure Insignificant Foreign Countries

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.”

Mean Country Might Citizens Creatures Travel Extraordinary Dawn Settling Proportion Dusk Pigeons Extraordinary Things Dawn And Dusk Wild Creatures

Author:David Attenborough

“Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.”

Ifs Want Home Might Travel Holiday Drawbacks

Author:Katharine Tynan

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”

“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.”

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.”

Might Journey Return Travel Plant Collections

Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

“I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.”

Might Journey Travel Evolve Piano Melody Funny Travel

Author:Enya

“If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.”

Ifs Two War Might Lines Race Terrible Travel Sight Victim Green Graves Fallen Lakes Funny Travel Pacific Philanthropist

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.”

Book Might Boys Novel Mystery Youth Adventure Travel Historical Innocent Funny Travel Librarian Mystery Novels Kenneth Historical Novels Adventure Books

Author:Peter Straub

“I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.”

People Thinking Might Used Dies Dying Travel Messages Luck Phones Going Away Funny Travel People Dying

Author:Rose McGowan

“Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty.”

Way Two Shows Might Values Grows Issues Travel Sight Rounds Two Ways

Author:Pico Iyer

“Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.”

Might Fun Challenges Inspire Travel Flying Flight Aviation Sailing Pilots And Flying Sailing And Love

Author:Amelia Earhart

“I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.”

Ifs Knows Might Lasts Moving Loses Travel Yeah Heavy Speed Faster Honey Freak Locked Bullets Slow Down Locked Up

Author:Jay Kay

“Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you know I might get busted. But my heart keeps calling me backwards, as I get on the 707. Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes, you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. Big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay.”

People Knows Way Heart Home Bigs Might Eye Heaven Causes Hell Rich Tears My Heart Calling Travel My Friends My Way Goodbye Far Away Trusted Backwards Jet Get Rich Busted Tears In My Eyes

Author:Steve Miller

“Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?”

Might Moving Lost Given Heaven Nature Wonder Sweet Travel Angel Wings Bounds Unwilling

Author:Nick Gordon

“... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.”

Might Earth Spirit Growth Water Nature Blood Rocks Mountain Travel Spring Connections Bones Flesh Soil Arrangements

Book:Da Vinci Notebooks

Source: Da Vinci Notebooks

“If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.”

Ifs Giving Wells Two Country Home Might Travel Devil

Author:Stephen Vincent Benet