Travel Quotes

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar wil...

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of ...

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there wa...

i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on ...

My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a f...

I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely t...

On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing ...

On Sundays, Presbyterians were not allowed to eat hot food or read the funny papers or travel the sh...

It was late afternoon. This time tomorrow he would be somewhere on a good graveled road, driving his...

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one'...

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian ...

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller a...

I suppose there has been nothing like the airports since the age of the stage-stops - nothing quite ...

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

I am free to go wherever I want for the rest of my life.

A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to tra...

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convin...

London: A place you go to get bronchitis.

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain...

Saying good-bye to a city is harder than breaking up with a lover. The grief and regret are more pie...

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or...

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.

I have just returned from Boston it is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a fram...

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as the...

...in the unique case of a country’s geographic position, it is difficult to consider this factor as...

The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly ...

We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the...

You know that feeling when you first arrive in a new city? However tired you are, however shattered ...

In the cramped confines of the toilet I had trouble getting out of my wet trousers, which clung to m...

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral pro...

Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hol...

Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by trave...

We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life. Wh...

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has...

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote...

I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.

I can go on the road - and I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of bei...

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I t...

I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an ope...

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a...

Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and ...

I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of...

A journey - whether it's to the corner grocery or through life - is supposed to have a beginning, mi...

It's time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, be...

the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a ...

I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath,...

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Then his friend said, 'If you fly you will save a day.' He nodded, he agreed, he would sacrifice his...

When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my p...

It looks as if Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a trav...

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies...

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and trav...

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,To gain all while you give,To roam the roads of lands remote,T...

To travel is to live.

I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Maco...

And you came to Finland to build a station?""No I came here on vacation to visit a friend.""That's g...

There is one thing I can say for certain: the older a person gets, the lonelier he becomes. It's tru...

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follow...

It was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt in Japan. And not such a bad feelin...

all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the f...

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attr...

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. I say to my friend, Suppose we try...

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid moun...

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, sai...

Yeah, that’s my experience. Humbling to the point where you have major regrets about some of the stu...

When I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, al...

It is easier to bear the worries of wandering than to find peace in your hometown, where only the sa...

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but w...

What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life...

Let me put it thus: that from the height of Weissenstein I saw, as it were, my religion. I mean, hum...

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, ...

A CITY IS AS much a state of mind as a place—a set of perceptions of place. On the last train home t...

The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. Th...

Journeys to relive your past?' was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also ha...

what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a pa...

Tourism is the great soporific. It's a huge confidence trick, and gives people the dangerous idea th...

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seei...

Few can see wither their road will lead them, till they comes to it's end. - Gimli

Fare well we call to hearth and hallThough wind may blow and rain may fallWe must away ere break of ...