TRAVELING in Classic Quotes

1  I met some very interesting characters during my travels.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII.

2  This I decided to sell, in order to get a little money for travelling expenses.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

3  He had hardly removed the stains of travel when it was time to partake of supper.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII.

4  I confess that what I saw during my month of travel and investigation left me with a very heavy heart.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

5  Trains ran only a portion of the way, and the remainder of the distance was travelled by stage-coaches.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

6  In all my travels in the South and elsewhere since leaving Hampton I have always in some way sought my daily bath.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

7  In my ignorance I supposed that the little hotel existed for the purpose of accommodating the passengers who travelled on the stage-coach.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

8  On another occasion, when I was making a trip from Augusta, Georgia, to Atlanta, being rather tired from much travel, I rode in a Pullman sleeper.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.

9  In the early years of the Tuskegee school I walked the streets or travelled country roads in the North for days and days without receiving a dollar.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII.

10  Notwithstanding my need of money and clothing, I was very happy in the fact that I had secured enough money to pay my travelling expenses back to Hampton.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

11  I had been travelling over the mountains most of the afternoon in an old-fashion stage-coach, when, late in the evening, the coach stopped for the night at a common, unpainted house called a hotel.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

12  In giving all these descriptions of what I saw during my month of travel in the country around Tuskegee, I wish my readers to keep in mind the fact that there were many encouraging exceptions to the conditions which I have described.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII.

13  The small amount of money that I had earned had been consumed by my stepfather and the remainder of the family, with the exception of a very few dollars, and so I had very little with which to buy clothes and pay my travelling expenses.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

14  At one time Mr. Douglass was travelling in the state of Pennsylvania, and was forced, on account of his colour, to ride in the baggage-car, in spite of the fact that he had paid the same price for his passage that the other passengers had paid.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

15  The more we saw of them, and the more we travelled through the country districts, the more we saw that our efforts were reaching, to only a partial degree, the actual needs of the people whom we wanted to lift up through the medium of the students whom we should educate and send out as leaders.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

16  In fact, one of the saddest things I saw during the month of travel which I have described was a young man, who had attended some high school, sitting down in a one-room cabin, with grease on his clothing, filth all around him, and weeds in the yard and garden, engaged in studying a French grammar.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

17  When I told him that I thought that at that time scarcely anything would go farther in giving hope and encouragement to the race than the fact that the President of the Nation would be willing to travel one hundred and forty miles out of his way to spend a day at a Negro institution, he seemed deeply impressed.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII.