Quotes About Ibn Battuta

#1. How did I find myself here? Me - the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, hopping from one train to another, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu?

Fadia Faqir

#2. If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Moshe Dayan

#3. Traveling - it offers you a hundred roads to adventure, and gives your heart wings!

Ibn Battuta

#4. traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.

Ibn Battuta

#5. What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas Moore

#6. I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.

Ibn Battuta

#7. Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

David Willetts

#8. Who lives sees, but who travels sees more.

Ibn Battuta

#9. If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice." Chinese proverb

Nana Awere Damoah

#10. I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

Aleksandar Hemon

#11. I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's fairy tales as well. (Katherine Rae O'Flaherty)
"Books are not the same as reality," Devlin stared at her. "My world is not always kind to mortals.

Melissa Marr

#12. Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Ibn Battuta

#13. It's natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature.

Morrie Schwartz.