Travel Quotes

We take to the breeze, we go as we please.

may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in...

…”The Emersons who were at Florence, do you mean? No, I don’t suppose it will prove to be them. It i...

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indiffer...

With the first jolt he was in daylight; they had left the gateways of King’s Cross, and were under b...

Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all ...

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Begi...

I began my effort at improving my flight experiences by reading purposefully during my flights. My a...

We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the sourc...

For someone who likes to get around as much as I do, I really travel quite badly. Planes frighten me...

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused...

Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be t...

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone:...

If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhe...

Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occ...

I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it...

My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curi...

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, ...

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but...

... to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so diffic...

Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my gu...

When you are walking down the road in Bali and your pass a stranger, the very first question he or s...

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark f...

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it wo...

To shut your eyes is to travel.

I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their...

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...