Slow Travel Quotes

#1. Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

Carl Honore

#2. A slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window and disappears and becomes part of the past. Time is made visible, and it moves as the landscape moves.

Paul Theroux

#3. I'm still so incredibly tired. I lie there with my eyes still closed, just relaxing. I love that warm, fuzzy moment when I wake up and thoughts travel through my mind like a slow river. All my fears and worries are distant concerns that don't really bother me.

Gracie Strattyn

#4. Loyalty is the key to our survival. Without it, we are just like them.

Tiana Dalichov

#5. I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

Rob Zombie

#6. Slow down, take time, allow yourself to be wildly diverted from your plan. People are the soul of the place; don't forget to meet them and enjoy their company as you explore a place.

David DuChemin

#7. I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.

Vanessa Williams

#8. I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

David Tudor

#9. The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

Desmond Tutu

#10. Odin keep us.' Hakon's wisdom on the subject. 'He's as likely to as the White Christ.' I had no bone to pick with heathen bone-pickers. One god or many, none of them ever seemed to like us much.

Mark Lawrence

#11. You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.

John Dykstra

#12. The horses have stopped
their clippity-clop,
but feet are too slow
for where I must go.
So here I shall stay
until light of day
when clippity-clop
gets my team underway.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. The merchant increases the speed of the city. The musician slows it down. The merchant intensifies the urban stress, the noise, the chaos. The musician makes you slow down, find your center. This holds true in all cities and countries.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#14. In the Valley. The power is shifting to the engineers who create the companies.

Michael Lewis

#15. He lids squeezed closed. They were the dams to the silver trails of his soul leaking out.

Dan Skinner

#16. Failure is a part and parcel of success. Until and unless one gets a taste of failure, one does not understand that it is okay to not succeed every time.

Andrew McKinnon

#17. Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.

Marlene Dumas

#18. Sorry for all the pain and loneliness and disappointment. But there is this, too.

Libba Bray

#19. Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again.

Rhian J. Martin

#20. Some part of you, some ancient memory deep in your brain, recognizes this continent as home.

Tess Gerritsen

#21. I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

Steven Spielberg

#22. I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.

Jay Kay

#23. I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,
am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home
and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.

Rolf Potts

#25. Slow power can grind away any stagnant enemy. But fast power, one that can travel where you go, do what you wish it to as effectively as a hammer hitting a nail, that is the power that lops off heads and steals crowns. Can I trust you with it?

Pierce Brown

#26. There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.

Chris Bonington

#27. Time moves too slow or too fast. But I know a secret. You can control time. You can stop it or stretch it or loop it around. You can travel back and forth by living in the moment and paying attention. Time can be your bitch if you just let go of the "next" and the "before.

Amy Poehler

#28. What I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL. Don't all women feel the same? The only difference is how much we know we feel it, how in touch we are with our fury. We're all furies, except the ones who are too damned foolish,

Claire Messud

#29. Cupping a cheek in each hand, he lifted her back up to his desk and pressed his hips hard into hers.
Her eyes were worried. "But people keep coming
"
"The next person to come is going to be you," he said.

Jill Shalvis

#30. It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

Billy Graham

#31. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it
no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.

Mardi Ballou