Backpacker Quotes

#1. People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

Daniel H. Wilson

#2. If she [Mrs. Homemaker] didn't know how much she needed convenience, it was up to inventors like Clausi to show her the way.

Michael Moss

#3. If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking.

Cheryl Strayed

#4. Traveling is a great love of mine. I love South America and Africa. I'm your ultimate backpacker when I'm away. It's just me and my backpack. It's good for getting away from the industry.

Matthew McConaughey

#5. Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler.

Paul Theroux

#6. The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.

Ulysses S. Grant

#7. You look older, son." "Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.

Alastair Reynolds

#8. ...That's the difference between backpackers and holiday makers. The former can't help but invite hassle whilst the latter pay to escape it.

Harry Whitewolf

#9. Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.

Ahmet Ertegun

#10. One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another trip or two to get the adventurer degree.

Andrew Skurka

#12. (backpacker having conversation with Lizzie the Australian main character)
Backpacker: 'What's the drinking age in Australia?'
'eighteen'
'is that enforced'
Lizzie thought for a second before answering seriously, 'yes, they make us drink

Catherine Deveny

#13. I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.

Pharrell Williams