Quotes: Tourists

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.

To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense… you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

The People’s Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

I quit flying years ago. I don’t want to die with tourists.

We are each other’s seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.