With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

Edmund De Waal
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Augustus, " I said. "Really. You don't have to do this."" Sure I do, " he said. "I found my Wish.""God, you're the best, " I told him." I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel, " he answered. - John Green

  2. Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another... - Roman Payne

  3. We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge,... - Pico Iyer

  4. There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave. - Charlotte Eriksson

  5. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu

More Quotes By Edmund De Waal
  1. All art is the result of one’s having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end when no one can go any further. This is what it is like to be an artist — you are unsteady on...

  2. There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch.

  3. There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something.

  4. With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

  5. Even when one is no longer attached to things, it's still something to have been attached to them; because it was always for reasons which other people didn't grasp...' There are the places in memory you do not wish to go with others.

Related Topics