Folks Quote by Robyn Davidson

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

— Margaret Atwood

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on…

— Margot Fonteyn

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

— Kenneth Koch

abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen…

— Agnes Repplier

as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one…

— Margaret Mead

It's just something we're talking about and thinking about all the time, reflecting on our privilege - the privilege of what it means even…

— Ellen Page

“Spaceflight, therefore, is subversive. If they are fortunate enough to find themselves in orbit, most people, after a little meditation, have similar thoughts. The…

— Carl Sagan

“Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?”

— Ambeth Ocampo

“Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own…

— Thomas Pynchon

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

— Olaf Stapledon

“Traveling in other countries is especially fun because others often attribute your differences to the less-stigmatizing idea that you're like this only because you're…

— Michael John Carley