A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing things men have always done. If a war story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. —Tim O'Brien More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have noticed that as soon as you have soldiers, the story is called history. Before their arrival, it is called myth, folktale, legend, fairy tale, oral poetry, ethnography. After the soldiers arrive, it is called history. —Judy Grahn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no history of mankind; there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. But . . . the history of power politics is nothing but the history of international crime and mass murder. . . . This history is taught in schools, and some of the greatest criminals are extolled as its heroes. —Karl Popper More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Where are we really going? Always home! —Novalis More about this quote Tags: home travel destination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Tags: hatred anger mountains Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind! —Henri Frederic Amiel More about this quote Tags: life kindness time Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else. —Caroline Llewellyn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Photographer Yousuf Karsh and his wife were having lunch with astronaut Neil Armstrong after a photo session. Armstrong politely questioned the couple about the many different countries they had visited. "But, Mr. Armstrong," protested Mrs. Karsh, "you've walked on the moon. We want to hear about your travels." "But that's the only place I've ever been," replied Armstrong apologetically. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: space countries travel place photography Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wherever you go, the sky is the same color. —Persian saying More about this quote Tags: commonality colors sky Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 as a foreign land. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: perception perspective travel returning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each instant is a place we've never been. —Mark Strand More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. —Lillian Smith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Traveling is a fool's paradise. . . . I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: identity self travel paradise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We borrow the light of an observant and imaginative traveler and see the foreign land bright with his aura; and we think it is the country which shines. —H. M. Tomlinson More about this quote Tags: light travel Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes — with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating. —Michael Crichton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email