"One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none."

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Nancy Mitford

#Travel Quotes #Ants Quotes #Sides Quotes

“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.”
“Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank”
“The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.”
“Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken”
“I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.”

Source : David Walker (2008). “Walker's Appeal”, p.28, Applewood Books
“We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.”
“You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.”

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