Traveling Quotes

Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.

~ Gina Greenlee

By necessity, we are direct and swift in speech and movement. This is the true dynamic that underlies our apocryphal rudeness. Also true: we do not make eye contact. Neither do we encourage it. Consider the number of humans a New Yorker will pass on a given day – on the subway, in a train or bus terminal, in an office or simply walking down the street. To facilitate speed and minimize drama, it’s productive to keep one’s eyes focused ahead.

~ Gina Greenlee

You’d be surprised who will back down when you speak up.

~ Gina Greenlee

For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with their fingers, squinting at street signs or staring at a slip of paper with confusion are typical recipients of our generosity. We know our city can be as challenging as it is fascinating, and we want visitors to have a good experience.

~ Gina Greenlee

No map? No problem. Let commitment and determination lead the way.

~ Gina Greenlee

I know when people think of New York, they think of theater, restaurants, cultural landmarks and shopping,” I told him. “But beyond the iconic skyline and the news from Wall Street, New York is a collection of villages. In our neighborhoods, we attend school, play Kick the Can, handball and ride our bikes. I grew up knowing the names and faces of the baker, the shoe repair family, the Knish man and the Good Humor man who sold me and the other kids in my neighborhood half a popsicle for a nickel. My father took me to the playground where he pushed me on the swing, helped balance me on the seesaw and watched as I hung upside down by my feet on the monkey bars. Yes,” I told the interviewer, “people actually grow up in New York.

~ Gina Greenlee

Want more fizz in your life? Shake things up.

~ Gina Greenlee

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

~ Gina Greenlee

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.

~ Gina Greenlee

The alchemy of diamonds from the rough is to mine every moment.

~ Gina Greenlee

Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do.

~ Gina Greenlee

Those who walk the talk get the work.

~ Gina Greenlee

As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

~ Gina Greenlee

If you’ve broken any promises you’ve made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

~ Gina Greenlee

The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry.

~ Milan Kundera

This was his first trip on the Ossifar Distana, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him. Mister Smiff liked anonymity. He kept a low profile, often traveling under assumed names, claiming to be anything from a banker to a (very) successful life insurance salesman. He’d never broken the law, at least not irreparably. He was quite generous, well liked, sponsoring many charities anonymously – which is why it was so surprising to find him floating face down in the private spa in his apartment, murdered. He had been murdered, unless it was a freak shaving accident. Those old razors weren’t called cut-throats for nothing. Yikes.

~ Christina Engela

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

~ Michael Simkins