Travel Quotes
People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.
For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.
One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies
I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.
A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.
Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?
Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.
On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.
What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.
At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.
Wanderlust is incurable.
He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.
Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.
Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.
I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.
In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.
There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.
I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off
We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.
In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.
Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.
I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.