Travel Quotes

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.

Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.

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

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

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

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

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.

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

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

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.

We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.

In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

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

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.

These are optimistic pieces, travel pieces that go anywhere

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

All our songs are about love, travel and death.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.