Sightseeing Quotes

“Travel wasn't fun if you didn't get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work, in a different place.”
― Chris Pavone, The Expats

“sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the notion that one is discovering the past when really one is inventing it, using a guidebook as a scenario of swift notations.”
― Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

“Is there more to see?" Brixton asks.
"No. Just a long walk back to hope.”
― D.R. Hedge, The Geri Rogue

“The whole reason I wanted to take Owen to Disney World is that I fear that someday he's going to look through his childhood photo album and wonder why all his vacations with his aunt took place at places like the McKinley Memorial and Wounded Knee. And yet here we are. Powell's cemetery was just too close to Cinderella's Castle for me to pass up.”
― sarah vowell, Assassination Vacation

“On your journey to nature, take your cat along, and leave your car at home.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“whenever i am in pain,
i just think of watching your eye's in rain!”
― A.R.Maria

“To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.”
― Samuel Johnson

“If you don’t know what Bi-Costal means- we can’t be friends. I hope that explains a lot.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“Arguably, the Malecón is the most photographed street in Havana. It lies as a bulwark just across the horizon from the United States, which is only 90 treacherous miles away. It is approximately 5 miles long, following the northern coast of the city from east to west. This broad boulevard is ideal for the revelers partaking in parades and is the street used for Fiesta Mardi Gras, known in Cuba as Los Carnavales. It has also been used for “spontaneous demonstrations” against the United States. It runs from the entrance to Havana harbor at the Morro Castle, Castillo del Morro, alongside the Centro Habana neighborhood to the Vedado neighborhood, past the United States Embassy on the Calle Calzada. Since 1977, the renovated Embassy building has housed the United States Interests Section in Havana. The Malecón is also known as a street where both male and female prostitutes ply their trade. At the present time, most of the buildings that line this once magnificent coastal boulevard are in ruins, which doesn’t stop it from being a spectacular and popular esplanade for an evening walk by residents and tourists alike.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba"

“If you know where you’re going, you can get there;
if you don’t know where you’re going, you can get everywhere.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“If you are going to have an adventure around the world, it really helps if you can get it by working for international employers.”
― Steven Magee

“The afternoon at the Pyramids was duly enjoyable. Victoria, though reasonably fond of
children, might have enjoyed it more without Mrs. Kitchin’s offspring. Children when sight‐
seeing is in progress are apt to be somewhat of a handicap. The youngest child became so
fretful that the two women returned earlier from the expedition than they had meant to
do.”
― Agatha Christie, They Came to Baghdad

“Nature is not a place to stop by.
It is a place to spend quality time in.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Life is a sightseeing tour.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Betrayals

“A daily appointment with mother nature keeps one from booking an appointment with the doctor.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire