#travelling

Travelling expands the mind rarely. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#expands #mind #rarely #travelling

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#end #i #just #me #occur

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#accustomed #british #early #few #force

Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#been #behind #both #felt #grateful

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#days #discussing #i #i have learned #learned

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#come #feature #feet #grown #hands

I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely. ↗

— George Lopez

#answering #audience #cinemas #days #i

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#better #better world #develop #feeling #main

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge. ↗

— Chris Morris

#interest #knowledge #maintain #more #only

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#become #individual #individual men #industry #men