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Find great travel quotes right here. The world of literature is full of wise observations with or without a sense of humour.
Some might be found in libraries. Other quotes may be drawn from sources like music lyrics, magazines, Twitter, and blogs.
I have a collection of more than 500. I add a promise to update the list with even more as time goes by.
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UPDATE: There are now more than 800 quotes available!
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost. | A.A. Milne |
| There’s the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there’s an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don’t like talking about them. | A.A. Milne |
| When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen. | A.A. Milne |
| You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. | A.A. Milne |
| Things go away to return, brightened for the passage. | A.R. Ammons |
| We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second. | Adam Gopnik |
| The world is the traveler’s inn. | Afghan Proverb |
| He who has not traveled widely thinks that his mother is the best cook. | African Proverb |
| Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors | African proverb |
| The wise traveler leaves his heart at home. | African Proverb |
| To travel is to see, to return is to talk. | African Proverb |
| It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. | Agatha Christie |
| The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. | Agnes Repplier |
| Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. | Al Boliska |
| Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. | Al Gore |
| It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. | Alain de Botton |
| The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. | Alain de Botton |
| I don’t drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off. | Alan Davies |
| Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved. | Alan Dean Foster |
| Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes. | Alan Rickman |
| We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. | Alan Turing |
| I love to travel, but hate to arrive. | Albert Einstein |
| The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before. | Albert Einstein |
| The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. | Albert Einstein |
| To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It’s futile to gaze at the world through a car window. | Albert Einstein |
| Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. | Albert Szent-Gyorgyi |
| Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. | Albus Dumbledore |
| To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. | Aldo Leopold |
| To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. | Aldous Huxley |
| Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. | Aldous Huxley |
| And me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know it’s not some place you can look for, ‘cause it’s not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something, and if you find that moment… it lasts forever… | Alex Garland |
| Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I’d forgotten England even existed. | Alex Garland |
| For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it. | Alex Garland |
| The travel writer seeks the world we have lost – the lost valleys of the imagination. | Alexander Cockburn |
| Own only what you can carry with you; Let your memory be your travel bag. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| The map is not the territory. | Alfred Korzybski |
| One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. | Alfred North Whitehead |
| Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. | Alfred Sisley |
| It is solved by walking. | Algerian proverb |
| If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. | Alphonse de Lamartine |
| I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy – and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time. | Alton Brown |
| The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. | Amelia E. Barr |
| Adventure is worthwhile in itself. | Amelia Earhart |
| Since I travel so much, it’s always great to be home. There’s nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning. | Amy Grant |
| I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport…. | Amy Johnson |
| Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I’m always surprised when it’s noticed by others. | Amy Wilensky |
| Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. | Anais Nin |
| We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. | Anais Nin |
| Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. | Anatole France |
| The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off. | Anderson Cooper |
| Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that. | Andre Benjamin |
| It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves. | Andre Gide |
| One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. | Andre Gide |
| Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. | Anita Desai |
| You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference. | Anita Septimus |
| I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived. | Anna Louise Strong |
| The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have. | Anna Quindlen |
| How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. | Anne Frank |
| Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. | Anne Sophie Swetchine |
| While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. | Anne Tyler |
| In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. | Ansel Adams |
| I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary. | Anthony Bourdain |
| If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move. | Anthony Bourdain |
| If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go. | Anthony Bourdain |
| It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there- with your eyes open- and lived to see it. | Anthony Bourdain |
| Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment. | Anthony Bourdain |
| The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca. | Anthony Bourdain |
| Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. | Anthony Bourdain |
| Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. | Anthony Bourdain |
| The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. | Anthony Robbins |
| A goal without a plan is just a wish. | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| He who would travel happily must travel light. | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| Language is the source of misunderstandings. | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things … | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking | Antonio Machado |
| It is not the road ahead that wears you out – It is the grain of sand in your shoe. | Arabian proverb |
| Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. | Aristophanes |
| Adventure is worthwhile. | Aristotle |
| At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. | Arthur Frommer |
| No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car. | August Strindberg |
| Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life’s recollections. | Augustus Hare |
| We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. | Australian Aboriginal Proverb |
| The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. | Barack Obama |
| Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place. | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Adventurous travel is like a virus for many people … Once they’ve been to some far-away destination completely on their own … it’s often as if a switch has been flipped. They’ve caught the travel bug, and from that moment on they are constantly thinking about their next trip. | Barry Kooijmans |
| If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks. | Baz Luhrmann |
| Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It’s not a place that’s built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it’s glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it’s very hard to get away from its magnetic pull. | Baz Luhrmann |
| Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone. | Bear Grylls |
| Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Travel teaches toleration. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone’s adventure is original. | Bernard Pivot |
| A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. | Bertrand Russell |
| When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London. | Bette Midler |
| I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. | Bill Bryson |
| I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place. | Bill Bryson |
| My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin. | Bill Bryson |
| The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than this. | Bill Bryson |
| To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. | Bill Bryson |
| The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. | Bill Gates |
| I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. | Billy Connolly |
| The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards. | Billy Connolly |
| There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. | Billy Connolly |
| Our Nature lies in movement; complete calm is death | Blaise Pascal |
| I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop. | Blake Mycoskie |
| A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. | Bob Dylan |
| Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me. | Bob Marley |
| Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well. | Bonnie Tyler |
| It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene. | Brian Eno |
| The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. | Brian W. Aldiss |
| With Latin, a horse, and money, you may travel the world. | British Proverb |
| The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff. | Britney Spears |
| Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin. | Bruce Chatwin |
| There is no happiness for the person who does not travel. For Indra is the friend of the traveler, therefore wander! | Brähmann |
| No matter where you go, there you are. | Buckaroo Banzi |
| It is better to travel well than to arrive. | Buddha |
| Poverty with dignity is better than wealth based on shame. | Buddhist Proverb |
| ?To travel is to possess the world. | Burton Holmes |
| There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. | C.S. Lewis |
| Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds. | Caleb Colton |
| More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs. | Callimachus |
| Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home. | Cameron Diaz |
| A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse… and thinks of home. | Carl Burns |
| A wise traveler never despises his own country. | Carlo Goldoni |
| In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics. | Carlos Fuentes |
| No matter where I’ve been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy. | Carmen Electra |
| Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves. | Carol Pearson |
| Everything has to be organised for kids in London – you can’t just walk three roads to see a friend. | Carol Vorderman |
| We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. | Carson McCullers |
| I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. | Caskie Stinnett |
| When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. | Catherynne M. Valente |
| If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. | Cesare Pavese |
| Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. | Cesare Pavese |
| When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it. | Charles de Lint |
| One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind. | Charles Dickens |
| There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. | Charles Dudley Warner |
| To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. | Charles Horton Cooley |
| Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. | Charles Kuralt |
| You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. | Charles Kuralt |
| Take only memories, leave only footprints. | Chief Seattle |
| Distance tests a horse’s strength. Time reveals a person’s character. | Chinese proverb |
| Don’t listen to what they say. Go see. | Chinese Proverb |
| Only he that has journeyed the road knows where the holes are deep. | Chinese proverb |
| To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping. | Chinese Proverb |
| Walking ten thousand miles of the world is better than reading ten thousand scrolls. | Chinese Proverb |
| For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. | Christopher Columbus |
| Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. | Christopher Morley |
| Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits. | Cindy Ross |
| When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. | Clifton Fadiman |
| When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting. | Clint Borgen |
| I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles. | Cole Porter |
| The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. | Colette |
| Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. | Confucius |
| Wherever you go, go with all your heart. | Confucius |
| When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge. | Constantine Peter Cavafy |
| When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in. | D. H. Lawrence |
| People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. | Dagobert D. Runes |
| Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. | Dalai Lama XIV |
| I’ve never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once. | Daniel Boone |
| The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes sight-seeing. | Daniel J. Boorstin |
| To travel is to take a journey into yourself. | Danny Kaye |
| You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out. | Daranna Gidel |
| And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. | Dave Barry |
| Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it. | Dave Barry |
| It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. | Dave Barry |
| Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. | David Attenborough |
| I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. | David Attenborough |
| I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. | David Attenborough |
| I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn ‘til dusk, unless it’s a pigeon, which isn’t really wild, which might come and settle near them. | David Attenborough |
| I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. | David Attenborough |
| I’m absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don’t care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that’s what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time. | David Attenborough |
| The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? | David Attenborough |
| Well, I’m having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. | David Attenborough |
| Don’t rely on others to show you the way, carry your own map. | David Baird |
| I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring. | David Bowie |
| It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time. | David Brenner |
| A traveler’s most interesting meals tend to happen by surprise. | David Dale |
| For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated. | David Lyons |
| Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced. | David Mitchell |
| I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. | David Rockefeller |
| As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners. | David Sedaris |
| Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns. | David Sedaris |
| Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling. | Dean Stockwell |
| You have to taste a culture to understand it. | Deborah Cater |
| I did not fully understand the dread term ‘terminal illness’ until I saw Heathrow for myself. | Dennis Potter |
| My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities. | Diana Ross |
| My favorite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been | Diane Arbus |
| I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. | Diane von Furstenberg |
| If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect. | Diane von Furstenberg |
| Jet lag is for amateurs. | Dick Clark |
| I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. | Diogenes |
| There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. | Don Herold |
| Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons. | Donald Miller |
| And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems. | Donna George Storey |
| Adventure without risk is Disneyland. | Doug Coupland |
| I wore only black socks, because I had heard that white ones were the classic sign of the American tourist. | Doug Mack |
| I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. | Douglas Adams |
| It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase ‘As pretty as an Airport’ appear. | Douglas Adams |
| From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. | Dr Seuss |
| Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind! | Dr Seuss |
| The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. | Dr Seuss |
| Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. | Dr. Seuss |
| It’s opener, out there, in the wide, open air. | Dr. Seuss |
| Only you can control your future. | Dr. Seuss |
| Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. | Dr. Seuss |
| Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. | Dr. Seuss |
| You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go… | Dr. Seuss |
| You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights. | Dr. Seuss |
| You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. | Dr. Seuss |
| He who is outside his door already has the hardest part of his journey behind him. | Dutch proverb |
| All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. | Earl Nightingale |
| I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris. | Ed Bradley |
| Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. | Ed Viesturs |
| One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are. | Edith Wharton |
| I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve. | Edmund Hillary |
| It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it. | Edmund Hillary |
| It’s not the destination, It’s the glory of the ride. | Edward Monkton |
| Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble. It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible. | Edward Readicker-Henderson |
| Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection. | Edward Streeter |
| Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something. | Elizabeth Bishop |
| Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations. | Elizabeth Drew |
| To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. | Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. | Ella Maillart |
| I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world’s end. | Ella Maillart |
| I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. | Ella Maillart |
| Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. | Ella Maillart |
| You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. | Ella Maillart |
| All great adventures have moments that are really crap. | Ellen Potter |
| Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free | Elvis Presley |
| I’m gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me | Elvis Presley |
| A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car. | Emile Ganest |
| Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we’d leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we’d walk through the Plaza Mayor. | Emilio Estevez |
| There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug – not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. | Emilio Estevez |
| Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure. | Emily Wing Smith |
| I am a voyager – and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home. | Emmanuelle Beart |
| If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. | Enoch Powell |
| India – a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India – at least in the circles I moved in – it’s natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world. | Erin Reese |
| India – a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India – at least in the circles I moved in – it’s natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world. | Erin Reese |
| There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home. | Erin Reese |
| Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? | Erma Bombeck |
| How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra! | Ernest Hemingway |
| If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. | Ernest Hemingway |
| Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. | Ernest Hemingway |
| You can’t understand a city without using its public transportation system. | Erol Ozan |
| Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. | Eudora Welty |
| All glory comes from daring to begin. | Eugene F. Ware |
| Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves. | Euripides |
| Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy. | Fanny Burney |
| Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. | Farrah Gray |
| Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. | Federico Fellini |
| The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. | Federico Garcia Lorca |
| Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey. | Fitzhugh Mullan |
| It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible. | Frances Mayes |
| If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. | Francis Bacon |
| Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. | Francis Bacon |
| When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he has travelled altogether behind. | Francis Bacon |
| ?Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. | Frank Herbert |
| I’ve lived a life that’s full I traveled each and every highway. And more, much more than this, I did it my way! | Frank Sinatra |
| The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. | Franz Kafka |
| It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. | Frederick Sanger |
| I love going into a country and just blending. | Freida Pinto |
| To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. | Freya Stark |
| Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. | Freya Stark |
| I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you. | Frida Kahlo |
| London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. | G. K. Chesterson |
| An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered | G. K. Chesterton |
| The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. | G.K. Chesterton |
| The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. | G.K. Chesterton |
| The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. | G.K. Chesterton |
| They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. | Gabrielle Zevin |
| Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed … And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we’ve been and the heroes we were. | Garrison Keillo |
| The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere. | Geoff Dyer |
| For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so. Then people long on pilgrimage to og. And palmers to be seeking foreign strands. To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands. | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. | George Addair |
| The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack. | George Ade |
| I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. | George Bernard Shaw |
| If black boxes survive air crashes, why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff? | George Carlin |
| ?Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers. | George Carlin |
| What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on? | George Carlin |
| Adventure is not outside man; it is within. | George Eliot |
| It is never too late to be what you might have been. | George Eliot |
| Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. | George Eliot |
| If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. | George Harrison |
| The secret to film is that it’s an illusion. | George Lucas |
| A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. | George Santayana |
| He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides. | George Schultz |
| If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport. | George Winters |
| One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. | Georgia O’Keeffe |
| Tell me with whom you travel, and I’ll tell you who you are. | German Proverb |
| When you get there, there isn’t any there there. | Gertrude Stein |
| The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. | Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| Looking back at my life’s voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip. | Ginger Rogers |
| Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. | Giotto di Bondone |
| We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. | Gloria Gaither |
| Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. | Gloria Steinem |
| Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! | Golda Meir |
| A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. | Grace Hopper |
| The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped. | Graham Greene |
| Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. | Greg Anderson |
| Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe? | Gregory Colbert |
| Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that’s the one they invented when they got tired of all the others. | Gustave Flaubert |
| I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags. | Guy Clark |
| But the beauty is in the walking – we are betrayed by destinations. | Gwyn Thomas |
| People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
| The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. | H. W. Arnold |
| Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. | Haitian Proverb |
| To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live. | Hans Christian Andersen |
| I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great! | Harry Melling |
| I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. | Harun Yahya |
| Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning. | Harvey Lloyd |
| I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. | Hedy Lamarr |
| When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee. | Helen Hayes |
| Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. | Helen Keller |
| No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. | Helen Keller |
| I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don’t think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. | Helen Mirren |
| Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn’t hit fully until you’ve been in a place for a long time. | Henri Cartier-Bresson |
| Kan hende jeg seiler min skute på grunn; men så er det dog deilig å fare! | Henrik Ibsen |
| Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. | Henry Adams |
| The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. | Henry Boye |
| It is a great art, to saunter. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. | Henry David Thoreau |
| The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. | Henry David Thoreau |
| The question is not what you look at but what you see. | Henry David Thoreau |
| We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character | Henry David Thoreau |
| What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. | Henry David Thoreau |
| It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. | Henry Ford |
| When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. | Henry Ford |
| The saying ‘Getting there is half the fun’ became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. | Henry J. Tillman |
| The world is my lobster. | Henry J. Tillman |
| If we are always arriving and departing it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. | Henry Miller |
| One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. | Henry Miller |
| I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on. | Henry Rollins |
| I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. | Henry Rollins |
| I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. | Henry Rollins |
| It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. | Henry Ward Beecher |
| As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. | Herman Melville |
| It is not down in any map; true places never are. | Herman Melville |
| I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like. | Hermann Hesse |
| One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. | Hermann Hesse |
| I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. | Hilaire Belloc |
| We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. | Hilaire Belloc |
| I’m certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain. | Hilary Swank |
| It’s a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful. | Hiromu Arakawa |
| Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. | Hodding Carter |
| A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly. | Homer |
| Go on with a spirit that fears nothing. | Homer |
| English, who needs that? I’m never going to England. | Homer Simpson |
| Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged. | Howard Gardner |
| An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. | Iain Sinclair |
| Traveling – it makes you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller. | Ibn Battuta |
| Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. | Indian Proverb |
| What fills the eye fills the heart. | Irish Proverb |
| Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. | Irish Proverb |
| Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. | Irving Wallace |
| A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. | Isabelle Eberhardt |
| Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. | Isabelle Eberhardt |
| Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did now know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. | Italo Calvino |
| The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. | Italo Calvino |
| Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. | Italo Calvino |
| In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry. | Ivanka Trump |
| The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. | Ivy Baker Priest |
| Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. | Izaak Walton |
| A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. | J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley |
| How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Not all those who wander are lost. | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| All of life is a foreign country. | Jack Kerouac |
| Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. | Jack Kerouac |
| Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. | Jack Kerouac |
| My witness is the empty sky. | Jack Kerouac |
| Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. | Jack Kerouac |
| Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. | Jack Kerouac |
| The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view. | Jack Kerouac |
| The road is life. | Jack Kerouac |
| The road must eventually lead to the whole world. | Jack Kerouac |
| There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go. | Jack Kerouac |
| There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. | Jack Kerouac |
| What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take? | Jack Kerouac |
| I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit. | Jacqueline Cochran |
| I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. | James Baldwin |
| If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. | James Michener |
| I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle. | James Weldon Johnson |
| There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond. | Jan Myrdal |
| If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. | Jane Austen |
| When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there. | Japanese Proverb |
| I travel light. But not at the same speed.? | Jarod Kintz |
| I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.? | Jarod Kintz |
| Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start. | Jason Mraz |
| We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. | Jawaharal Nehru |
| Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. | Jean Batten |
| I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. | Jean Kerr |
| Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. | Jean Paul Richter |
| A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. | Jean Rostand |
| For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| You have to get lost before you can be found. | Jeff Rasley |
| I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other. | Jet Li |
| Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late. | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| After a lifetime of world travel I’ve been fascinated that those in the third world don’t have the same perception of reality that we do. | Jim Harrison |
| I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. | Jimmy Dean |
| Where you come from does matter — but not nearly as much as where you are headed. | Jodi Picoult |
| I’m not a good tourist, I don’t like tourism. | Joe Sacco |
| Humor is a universal language. | Joel Goodman |
| Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for | John A. Shedd |
| If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. | John D. Rockefeller |
| I’m leaving on a jet plane. Don’t know when I’ll be back again | John Denver |
| It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. | John Green |
| We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. | John Hope Franklin |
| I grew up in Los Angeles, and I’ve made movies all over the world… I’ve been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London – I’ve been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, ‘People who choose to live here are insane.’ | John Landis |
| A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. | John le Carré |
| Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. | John Maxwell |
| Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. | John Muir |
| The mountains are calling and I must go. | John Muir |
| Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity… | John Muir |
| Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. | John Ruskin |
| A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. | John Steinbeck |
| A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. | John Steinbeck |
| People don’t take trips . . . trips take people. | John Steinbeck |
| To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality. | John Tibbetts |
| Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. | Jon Bon Jovi |
| Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. | Jon Krakauer |
| The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. | Jon Krakauer |
| There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to achieve. Isn’t that what we’re all searching for in life? To just be happy and content in the moment, to just be there in the ‘now’? | Jon Krakauer |
| The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it. | Jordan Belfort |
| The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. | Joseph Campbell |
| More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. | Joseph Lelyveld |
| Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end. You must make your own map | Joy Harjo |
| Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. | Judith Thurman |
| It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions. | Jules Verne |
| I’m an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I’ve been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me. | Julie Delpy |
| Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world. | Julien Smith |
| Getting lost is just another way of saying ‘going exploring’. | Justina Chen |
| I didn’t know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful. | Justina Chen Headley |
| The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible. | Justus Liebig |
| You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions. | Karen Blixen |
| There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed. | Kate Douglas Wiggin |
| A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. | Katharine Butler Hathaway |
| If you travel, it must be to seek difference. | Kathleen Lee |
| I hate going out in Brighton now. It’s different in London. People respect you more there. | Katie Price |
| The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all. | Kim Fay |
| You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next. | Kirsten Hubbard |
| We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. | Konrad Adenauer |
| If you’re feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you’re different. | Kristin Scott Thomas |
| Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God. | Kurt Vonnegut |
| I have had a holiday, and I’d like to take it up professionally. | Kylie Minogue |
| People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way. | Lance Morrow |
| A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. | Lao Tzu |
| The further one goes the less one knows. | Lao Tzu |
| The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. | Lao Tzu |
| When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag. | Lara St. John |
| Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life. | Lauren Hutton |
| Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. | Lawrence Block |
| Journeys are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will whatever we may think. | Lawrence Durrell |
| Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. | Lawrence Durrell |
| To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom. | Leah Stewart |
| A passport, as I’m sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly. | Lemony Snicket |
| I think it’s my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may. | Leonard Nimoy |
| When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. | Les Brown |
| I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I’m not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel. | Levon Helm |
| Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know – because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful. | Lewis Black |
| On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. | Lewis Grizzard |
| When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. | Liberty Hyde Bailey |
| I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. | Lillian Smith |
| A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from. | Lin Yutang |
| No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. | Lin Yutang |
| Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you’ve seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me. | Lionel Richie |
| They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things— I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life’s ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There’s so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something. | Lisa Ann Sandell |
| Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station. | Lisa St. Aubin de Teran |
| I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing. | Lloyd Alexander |
| The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it. | Lord Chesterfield |
| I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. | Lord Dunsany |
| A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. | Lord Tennyson |
| The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for. | Louis L’Amour |
| Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. | Louis L’Amour |
| A picture is a fact. | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| The limits of my language means the limits of my world. | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Travel is not the time to break in new shoes. | Lynne Christen |
| I must be traveling on now, ‘cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see. | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead. | Ma Jian |
| Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs. | Maarten Maartens |
| It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. | Mae Jemison |
| I’d like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do. | Mae West |
| I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don’t get homesick. | Magnus Carlsen |
| The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. | Marcel Proust |
| It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. | Marcus Aurelius |
| As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. | Margaret Mead |
| We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. | Maria Mitchell |
| You can’t love a city if you have no memories buried there. | Marina Tavares Dias |
| Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all. | Mario Batali |
| Prague is the Paris of the ’90s. | Marion Ross |
| It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting. | Mark Haddon |
| There’s something with the physical size of America… American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. | Mark Haddon |
| Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you haven’t seen. | Mark Hertsgaard |
| Adventure is a path. Real adventure (self-determined, self-motivated, often risky (forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind (and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. | Mark Jenkins |
| The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. | Mark Russell |
| Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. | Mark Twain |
| I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. | Mark Twain |
| Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people. | Mark Twain |
| The Gentle Reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the Gentle Reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. | Mark Twain |
| There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land and work again after a cheerful, careless voyage. | Mark Twain |
| Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those. | Mark Twain |
| Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. | Mark Twain |
| Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. | Mark Twain |
| Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. | Mark Twain |
| Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. | Marlene Dietrich |
| All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. | Martin Buber |
| People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live. | Martin Yan |
| Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind. | Marty Rubin |
| Ah, if I had known this was my last time here I would have stayed a little longer savored it a little more. | Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey |
| I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home. | Mary Oliver |
| Listen—are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? | Mary Oliver |
| Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? | Mary Oliver |
| Travelers never think that THEY are the foreigners. | Mason Cooley |
| A travel adventure has no substitute. It is the ultimate experience, your one big opportunity for flair. | Massow |
| Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. | Matsuo Basho |
| Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. | Matsuo Basho |
| I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. | Maya Angelou |
| Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. | Maya Angelou |
| Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up! | Mehmet Murat Ildan |
| Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. | Michael Mewshaw |
| I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. | Michael Palin |
| Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life. | Michael Palin |
| The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience. | Michael Palin |
| Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way. | Milton Glaser |
| Take the back roads instead of the highways. | Minnie Pearl |
| Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. | Minor White |
| Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. | Miriam Beard |
| One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. | Miriam Beard |
| Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. | Miriam Beard |
| Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as ‘the bizarre’. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. | Miriam Beard |
| Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. | Mohammed |
| Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That’s what Christmas was for me – a plane journey to the next tournament. | Monica Seles |
| He who does not travel does not know the value of men. | Moorish Proverb |
| They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I’ve ever seen. | Morena Baccarin |
| A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. | Moslih Eddin Saadi |
| Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners. | Muslih-uddin Sadi |
| ?I’ve got a plan, lets take off in a blue station wagon, and find the open road to salvation away from here | My Friend The Chocolate Cake |
| Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. | Napoleon Hill |
| Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. | Napoleon Hill |
| Anything we fully do is an alone journey. | Natalie Goldberg |
| If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it? | Neale Donald Walsch |
| In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours – one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport. | Neil McElroy |
| Once the dust of Mexico settles on your heart, you can never go home again. | Neill James |
| If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. | Nelson Mandela |
| Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. | Nelson Mandela |
| Still, I could find no good reason for not going. So I decided to go. | Nicolette Milnes Walker |
| If you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you. | Nietzsche |
| A traveler to distant places should make no enemies. | Nigerian Proverb |
| The day on which one starts out is not the time to start one’s preparations. | Nigerian saying |
| Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. | Nikos Kazantzakis |
| A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance. | NN |
| As I have grown older, I have needed more stars in my hotels. | NN |
| Don’t listen to what they say. Go see. | NN |
| Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office. | NN |
| Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you Until we meet again! | NN |
| Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. | NN |
| If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space. | NN |
| It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion. | NN |
| It is better to travel than to arrive. | NN |
| Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. | NN |
| Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone | NN |
| Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself. | NN |
| The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see. | NN |
| The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor. | NN |
| There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all. | NN |
| Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there. | NN |
| Those that say you can’t take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip. | NN |
| To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway. | NN |
| Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey. | NN |
| Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more. | NN |
| You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. | NN |
| An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other. | Norma Shearer |
| Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. | Norman Vincent Peale |
| The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what’s in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that. | Norton Juster |
| Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. | Old Haitian Proverb |
| A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. | Oliver Goldsmith |
| So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground. | Oprah Winfrey |
| The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. | Oprah Winfrey |
| A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. | Orson Welles |
| In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. | Orson Welles |
| There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. | Orson Welles |
| No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. | Orville Wright |
| I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. | Oscar Wilde |
| It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears)It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world | Oscar Wilde |
| The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. | Oscar Wilde |
| To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. | Oscar Wilde |
| The bold adventurer succeeds the best. | Ovid |
| Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. | Pat Conroy |
| All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. | Paul Fussell |
| Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travelers… seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns. | Paul Fussell |
| Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures. | Paul Sheehan |
| Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel. | Paul Theroux |
| The grand tour is just the inspired man’s way of heading home. | Paul Theroux |
| Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. | Paul Theroux |
| Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. | Paul Theroux |
| Travel works best when you’re forced to come to terms with the place you’re in. | Paul Theroux |
| You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. | Paul Theroux |
| Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. | Paulo Coelho |
| I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. | Paulo Coelho |
| Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near | Paulo Coelho |
| The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days. | Paulo Coelho |
| Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. | Peter Hoeg |
| There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. | Peter Høeg |
| Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined – how is it that this safe return brings such regret? | Peter Matthiessen |
| Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream. | Peter McWilliams |
| I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. | Peter Ustinov |
| When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food. | Phil Collins |
| To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. | Philip Andrew Adams |
| I travel the world, and I’m happy to say that America is still the great melting pot maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean. | Philip Glass |
| Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. | Pico Iyer |
| Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty. | Pico Iyer |
| We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. | Pico Iyer |
| I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere. | Piper Perabo |
| A place is only as good as the people in it. | Pittacus Lore |
| Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. | Plato |
| No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. | Plautus |
| Visits always give pleasure – if not the arrival, the departure. | Portuguese Proverb |
| There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won’t. | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach. | Rachel Johnson |
| Running through airports with pounds of luggage – that’s a good workout. | Rachel McAdams |
| Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way. | Ralph Crawshaw |
| Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. | Ray Bradbury |
| See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security. | Ray Bradbury |
| Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. | Ray Bradbury |
| We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. | Ray Bradbury |
| You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. | Ray Bradbury |
| Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. | Regina Nadelson |
| Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries. | René Descartes |
| Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes. | Riana Ambarsari |
| One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy. | Richard Burton |
| All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal. | Richard Le Gallienne |
| What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became. | Richard Russo |
| Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody. | Richard Simmons |
| Sometimes it’s worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination. | Richelle Mead |
| I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan. | Rick Allen |
| It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population. | Rick Riordan |
| Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind. | Rick Steves |
| And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. | Roald Dahl |
| There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children. | Robert Benchley |
| I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, ‘There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.’ | Robert De Niro |
| One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that’s it. | Robert Duvall |
| Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. | Robert Frost |
| For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. | Robert Orben |
| Most of my treasured memories of travel are recollections of sitting. | Robert Thomas Allen |
| It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. | Robert W. Service |
| The Wanderlust has got me… by the belly-aching fire. | Robert W. Service |
| There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest; Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don’t know how to rest. | Robert W. Service |
| There is no certainty; there is only adventure. | Roberto Assagioli |
| Every hundred feet the world changes. | Roberto Bolaño |
| I learn much more by traveling by myself. | Roberto Cavalli |
| Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. | Robin Leach |
| I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray. | Robyn Davidson |
| The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. | Robyn Davidson |
| If at some point you don’t ask yourself, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’ then you’re not doing it right. | Roland Gau |
| In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook. | Rolf Potts |
| Long term travel doesn’t require a massive ‘bundle of cash’; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way. | Rolf Potts |
| Vagabonding is about gaining courage to loosen your grip on the so-called certainties of this world… it’s about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life… it’s about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate. | Rolf Potts |
| I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I’ve learnt to be more economical. | Roman Coppola |
| The more you travel, the better you get at it. | Roman Coppola |
| I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side. | Roman Payne |
| I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. | Rosalia de Castro |
| Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles. | Roseanne Barr |
| The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore. | Rosita Forbes |
| Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination. | Ross Morley |
| Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. | Roy M. Goodman |
| The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. | Rudyard Kipling |
| Travel brings power and love back into your life. | Rumi |
| When you are everywhere, you are nowhere / When you are somewhere, you are everywhere. | Rumi |
| When you’re traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place. | Rumi |
| New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. | Russell Baker |
| The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. | Russell Baker |
| Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down. | Ry? Murakami |
| When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. | Saint Ambrose |
| The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. | Saint Augustine |
| All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. | Sally Ride |
| To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. | Sam Keen |
| A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. | Samuel Johnson |
| All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. | Samuel Johnson |
| By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. | Samuel Johnson |
| Curiousity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. | Samuel Johnson |
| The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. | Samuel Johnson |
| He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. | Samuel Smiles |
| Been there, done that… There is SO much left to explore… | Sandalsand |
| Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. | Santosh Kalwar |
| How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you. | Sarah Reijonen |
| Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting. | Sargent Shriver |
| Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. | Scott Cameron |
| I haven’t found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going. | Sean Connery |
| Any youth who doesn’t travel is like a blind person. | Sékou Camara |
| It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be. | Selms Lagerlof |
| I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land. | Seneca |
| Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. | Seneca |
| Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor | Seneca |
| Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently. | Shane Koyczan |
| The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. | Shirley MacLaine |
| Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. | Sigmund Freud |
| The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers. | Simon Winchester |
| He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. | Sinclair Lewis |
| If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren’t well enough to travel. | Sir Vivian Fuchs |
| I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it’s the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you. | Sloane Crosley |
| You get educated by traveling. | Solange Knowles |
| I hadn’t had a perfect moment yet. And it’s very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that… it kind of lets you know when it’s time to go home… | Spalding Gray |
| I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City. | Spalding Gray |
| How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. | Spanish Proverb |
| People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. | St. Augustine |
| I want to feel that every trip I make has enhanced me as a person. | Stefanie Powers |
| Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. | Stephen Wright |
| Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. | Steve Jobs |
| Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma (which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. | Steve Jobs |
| The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. | Steve Maraboli |
| I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. | Steve McQueen |
| When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. | Susan Heller |
| I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. | Susan Sontag |
| Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. | Susan Sontag |
| A traveller does not make a mess where he had made a camp as he might one day come back. | Swahili proverb |
| ?Happiness is a direction, not a place. | Sydney J Harris |
| The journey not the arrival matters. | T. S. Eliot |
| Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. | Tad Williams |
| Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world’s most beautiful cities. | Tadao Ando |
| Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home? | Tahir Shah |
| Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you begin to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead. | Tahir Shah |
| There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping. | Tahir Shah |
| A good traveller leaves no track. | Tao Tse Chung |
| In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic. | Tara Strong |
| Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else. | Tennessee Williams |
| My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. | Terry Prachett |
| Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you. | Terry Pratchett |
| Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. | Terry Pratchett |
| Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone. | The Dhammapada |
| ?There is nothing safer than flying – it’s crashing that is dangerous | Theo Cowan |
| I was born to travel and write verse. | Theophile Gautier |
| If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse. | Thomas Fuller |
| Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. | Thomas Fuller |
| I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. | Thomas Jefferson |
| There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one. | Thomas Wolfe |
| When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. | Thornton Wilder |
| Traveling is a return to the essentials. | Tibetan Proverb |
| A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. | Tim Cahill |
| I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. | Tim Cahill |
| I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots. | Tom Jenkinson |
| Every exit is an entry somewhere else. | Tom Stoppard |
| It’s a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal. | Tom Waits |
| Travelling’s so much better when you know you’ve got a lovely home to go back to. | Toni Collette |
| Don’t worry about being worried. You’re heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. | Tracy Kidder |
| May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. | Trenton Lee Stewart |
| Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. | Truman Capote |
| It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end. | Ursula K. LeGuin |
| Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours. | Vera Nazarian |
| Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard. | Vera Nazarian |
| A day of travelling will bring a basketful of learning. | Vietnamese Proverb |
| Venture all; see what fate brings. | Vietnamese Proverb |
| Without my imagination, I couldn’t go anywhere. | Vigdis Grimsdottir |
| Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. | Virginia Woolf |
| Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. | Vita Sackville-West |
| There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere. | Vivienne Westwood |
| Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. | W. C. Fields |
| Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. | W. H. Auden |
| ?When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back. | W.C.Sellar & R.J.Yeatman |
| The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. | Wallace Stevens |
| I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon. | Wallis Simpson |
| The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs. | Wally Lamb |
| Let your heart guide you. It whispers so listen closely. | Walt Disney Company |
| I tramp a perpetual journey. | Walt Whitman |
| Strong and content I travel the open road. | Walt Whitman |
| Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. | Walt Whitman |
| There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. | Walter Lippmann |
| One always wonders about roads not taken. | Warren Christopher |
| Travel is like the high drama of youth. It’s the best and worst at the same time. One minute you are flung to the depths of despair, the next, you feel the giddy, exaggerated joy of an adolescent. For me, it had been a chance to make rash decisions, to take wild risks, to lose everything knowing I’d still have plenty of time to earn it all back. | Wendy Dale |
| If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s. | will.i.am |
| Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There’s a whole other world out there, but most Americans – all they know is America, the marketing plan. | will.i.am |
| The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. | William Arthur Ward |
| Adventure must start with running away from home. | William Bolitho |
| Travellers are just commuters with a wider perspective. | William G Taylor |
| I should like to spend the whole of my in life traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. | William Hazlitt |
| I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. | William Hazlitt |
| It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. | William Hazlitt |
| The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. | William Hazlitt |
| You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. | William Hazlitt |
| Be careful going in search of adventure – it’s ridiculously easy to find. | William Least Heat Moon |
| The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. | William Least Heat Moon |
| What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. | William Least Heat Moon |
| I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It’s a river that immediately presents to the traveler, ‘I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.’ | William Least Heat-Moon |
| The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. | William McFee |
| Journeys end in lovers meeting. | William Shakespeare |
| The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. | William Shenstone |
| On the road again. Goin’ places that I’ve never been. Seein’ things that I may never see again. And I can’t wait to get on the road again. | Willie Nelson |
| A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. | Winston Churchill |
| It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. | Winston Churchill |
| A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place…. | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. | Xun Zi |
| The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? | Yann Martel |
| If you come to a fork in the road, take it. | Yogi Berra |
| You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there. | Yogi Berra |
| If you can dream it, you can achieve it. | Zig Ziglar |
| I’ve opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people. | Ziggy Marley |
Here are a few of my favourites. Who said that? Browse the table and find the answer.
It is solved by walking.
At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
Adventurous travel is like a virus for many people … Once they’ve been to some far-away destination completely on their own … it’s often as if a switch has been flipped. They’ve caught the travel bug, and from that moment on they are constantly thinking about their next trip.
Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
Are you interested in more like this? Check out the post on paintings about travelling as well as a second article on the same subject. I have also made a series of Great travel movies. That link goes to the first of four posts. A fifth article sums up a list of 40 travels movies, in the ultimate list of great travel movies . Finally, check out my selection of Poems and quotes on trains. Or do a Google search for travel quotes.
