Travel Quotes

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There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

I wake up wondering if I know we're near mountains because of memory or because of something in the ...

To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...

Everyone lives by selling something.

Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances...

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

No baggage - there was the secret of existence.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

So we navigate mostly by dead reckoning, and deduction from what clues we find. I keep a compass in ...

People entered the park and became polite and cozy and fakey to each other because the atmosphere of...

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than o...

New Yorkers are so impersonal if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

I was headed out down a long bone-white road, straight as a string and smooth as glass and glitterin...

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old...

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only...

Every hundred feet the world changes

There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

All good people agree, And all good people say,All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else i...

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be he...

Such people, while useful, even agreeable, to others, are, if truth be told, frequently unhappy–lone...

A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our do...

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that...

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor p...

As the Spanish proverb says 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealt...

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his...

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new stree...

For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and st...

On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye ...

(Airplanes) may kill you but they ain't likely to hurt you.

I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my paren...

I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.

The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sen...

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in ...

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired you've had a heada...

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many...

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be dec...

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

We also want to leave our own area behind, our domestic world so well regulated day to day; we are d...

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of ...

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativi...

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is im...

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way...

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg...

I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me ...

Amazing how money would simplify problems like ours. We wouldn't go wild at all, but write & travel ...

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we sta...

So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my bo...

The journey not the arrival matters.

The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, conta...

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, a...

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don'...

What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What p...

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swi...

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign ...

a foreign affair juxtaposed with a statesideand domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously...

Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame...

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. So...

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only...

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last ...

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business...

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose th...

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw com...

Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentra...

These hotels are not consoling places. Far from it. Any number of people had hung up their hats on t...

There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the ...

The few times I said to myself anywhere: ‘Now that’s a nice spot for a permanent home,’ I would imme...

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live...

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is p...

Every place of arrival should have a booth set up and manned by an ordinary person whose task it is ...

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he ...

My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals...

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

To the traveller imbued with a feeling for the historical and poetical, so inseparately interwined i...

Such were our minor preparations for the journey, but above all we laid in an ample stock of good-hu...

There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith....

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it beco...

Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are s...

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she t...

Constant comparisons are the stamp of the foreigner; one continually translates manners and customs ...

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. T...

His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, inde...

THE rule for travelling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind ...

When you're traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don't have your past to ho...

With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I ...

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

Sitting full in the moment, I practiced on the god-awful difficulty of just paying attention. It's a...

Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United St...

It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landloc...