Best travel & water Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.”

People Funny Found Water Comedy Land Travel

“The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.”

Art Stills Soul America Speak Water Travel Sitting Tongue Kingdoms Painter Dust Ruins Recalls Sculpture Pilgrim Shrines Sandals

Book:Sacred Poems

Source: Sacred Poems

“All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?”

People Earth Water Pleasure Wonder Sea Travel Track Ships Streams Up And Down

Book:Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

Source: Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

“Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.”

Moving Water Travel Prison Clay

Author:Saib Tabrizi

“How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!”

Water Sun Travel Granada

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.”

Ifs Way Home Would Be Fall Water Wonder Amount Travel Unnecessary Cliffs Wrong Way Niagara Niagara Falls

Author:Oscar Wilde

“On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.”

Long Light Water Journey Drink Healthy Travel Flight Load Haul Healthy Food Long Haul

Author:Lisa Snowdon

“In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.”

“I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Home Running Lost Left Water Effort Land Strange Comfort Travel Odd Sat Quantity Toilets Tourism Time And Money Odd Things Comfort Of Home Futile Efforts

Author:Bill Bryson

“Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.”

Strong Water Numbers Adventure Wind Months Safe Travel Summer Winter Woods Ships Shore Funny Travel Surfing Convenient Landing Surf Troublesome Safe Places

Book:The Voyage of the Bounty

Source: The Voyage of the Bounty

“The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water”

Looks Stills Past Water Cities Wall Travel Ocean Standing Blue Ancient Buried Shallow Royal Variation Deep Within Ocean Water Winding Road Royal Blue

Book:Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.”

Years Water Too Much Impossible Team Dog Honesty Travel North Pole

Author:Will Steger

“In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.”

Earth Water Sky Travel Empty Continents Firing Immensity Sky And Water

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all. Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam. In your belly, you hold the treasure that few have ever seen, most of them dreams, most of them dreams.”

Men Dream Wanted Mother Three Water Heard Feet He Man Travel Ocean Treasure Tall Sail Belly Steam

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“All is born of water; all is sustained by water.”

Water Nature Born Travel

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“... 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

“Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.”

Water Nature Four Sea Travel Elements Weight Mobility Four Elements

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.”

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