A Long Drive » Quote of the Day http://www.alongdrive.com From Polar Bears to Penguins - Driving North to South across the Americas Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:36:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 A trip http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/a-trip/ http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/a-trip/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:24 +0000 Neena http://www.alongdrive.com/?p=639 “A trip…is an entity…It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness”. – John Steinbeck in “Travels with Charley”.

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]]> http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/happy/feed/ 0 Borges Vision http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/borges-vision/ http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/borges-vision/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 17:42:29 +0000 Neena http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/borges-vision/ It has to be said that Borges fundamentally changes how you view Buenos Aires” – Shreesh Taskar, on Jorge Luis Borges.

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]]> http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/indians-speaking-spanish/feed/ 0 The Drake Passage http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/the-drake-passage/ http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/the-drake-passage/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:30:41 +0000 Neena http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/the-drake-passage/ “Hasta el rabo, todo es toro” – Friend Jesus Ruiz de Alegria about the Drake passage.

]]> http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/the-drake-passage/feed/ 1 Elgin marbles http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/elgin-marbles/ http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/elgin-marbles/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:50:46 +0000 Shreesh http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/elgin-marbles/ “We do not call them “Elgin” marbles. Why would we name them after a thief?” – A Greek traveler discussing the marbles removed from Parthenon by Lord Elgin and now lodged in the British museum.

]]> http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/elgin-marbles/feed/ 0 All the Names http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/all-the-names/ http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/all-the-names/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:30:06 +0000 Shreesh http://www.alongdrive.com/quote-of-the-day/all-the-names/ “…we live so sunk in ourselves that we don’t notice that what is actually happening to us leaves intact, at every moment, what might happen to us” – Jose Saramago

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