Places Quotes

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you’re doing, someone else does.

A part of us remains where ever we have been.

The people of Dacca are an almost congenitally aggrieved race, rather like the French in Canada; their record, before and after independence, has been one of consistent complaint, always vocal and often violent.

O That I was where I would be, Then would I be where I am not. But where I am I must be, And where I would be I cannot.

In Southern Nevada, there is only a screen door between you and hell.

You are now landing in New Zealand. Everybody is requested to put their watches back ten years.

If an English butler and an English nanny sat down to design a country, they would come up with New Zealand.

Hong Kong in a nutshell-a completely foreign city that’s utterly comprehensible. It’s a modern place, deaf to charm, dumb in the language of aesthetics, caught up in a wild, romantic passion for the plain utilitarian. The only traditional touches are the catawampus walls and whichaway entrances dictated by feng shui, the art of placing things […]

I have done Thebes somewhat hurriedly, it is true, but I have gone over it. Travellers no doubt, may wish to purchase mummies and other souvenirs here. If they but express a wish to buy, mummies by the wholesale, whole mummies, heads of mummies, hands, feet, limbs and trunks of mummies; human, animal, and bird […]