Quotes About American Tourists

#1. In one case, a group of innocent American tourists was taken on a tour bus through a country the members later described as "either France or Sweden" and subjected to three days of looking at old, dirty buildings in cities where it was not possible to get a cheeseburger.

Dave Barry

#2. In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

Mohsin Hamid

#3. My mother complained about the Parisians' habit of bumping into tourists on the narrow sidewalks. 'Am I bumping into them?' she asked, perplexed. 'I feel like such a clumsy American.' 'No, no,' I corrected. 'That's their way of saying hello.

Kate Betts

#4. You're in Ireland the summer after you left college and you're drinking at a pub near the castle where every day bus loads of English and American tourists come to kiss the Blarney Stone.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. Adele and Vladimir danced along the banks of the River Seine, the loveliness of spring a backdrop all around them.

Kristy Cambron

#6. I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.

Scott Lynch

#7. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.

Anonymous

#8. Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

Robert Orben

#9. She and I were the same, after all. We fought shame every day, struggling with who we could let see the real us, and we'd finally found each other.

Penelope Douglas

#10. God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. Fifteen minutes later, what she got was the most remarkable thing she had ever seen in her life. And Rue had once witnessed a whole party of American tourists actually refuse to drink tea, in a London teahouse, so that's saying something. The

Gail Carriger

#12. Nature is written in mathematical language.

Galileo Galilei

#13. American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.

Ira Sadoff

#14. All great Christians have been wounded souls.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#15. I know sneakers aren't very French-I should be wearing pointy boots or scary heels-but at least they aren't white. It's true what they say about white sneakers. Only American tourists wear them,big ugly things made for mowing grass or painting houses.

Stephanie Perkins

#16. Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.

Brian Halligan

#17. The world has no long injustices.

Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

#18. The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#19. There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.

Stephen Colbert

#20. Jay prepared himself to face the woman who must be at either side of emotions to be with him today - extreme hatred or extreme love.

Mita Jain

#21. when you think everyone around you is mad, that's then you should start to suspect it's actually you.

Ian C. Esslemont

#22. I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

D.H. Lawrence

#23. The point is the effort

Geraldine Brooks

#24. I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

Cole Younger