Travel Quotes

A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.

There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

The Dead travel fast.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

I need a six month vacation twice a year.

We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile.

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open doors.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

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.

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.

Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.

People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.