Tourist Quotes
117 quotes by 105 authors
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current…
— Benigno Aquino III
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The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
— Russell Baker
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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…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
— Julie Burchill
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In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy,…
— Julie Burchill
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More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a…
— Jackie Chan
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation,…
— Bill McKibben
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After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
— Edgar Bergen
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My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
— Robert Morley
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
— Agnes Repplier
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Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
— Satish Kumar
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My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only…
— Mickey Gilley
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What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been…
— John Cage
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The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with…
— Lawrence Durrell
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We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and…
— Marc Almond
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet,…
— Nadine Gordimer
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I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like…
— Brian Setzer
Who Wrote These Tourist Quotes
105 authors contributed a total of 117 Tourist Quotes, led by these top contributors: