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There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

There's roads, and there's roads, And they call. Can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit The best roads of all Are the ones that aren't certain. One of those is where you'll find me 'Til they drop the big curtain.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings.

The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.

The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a river.... The word is from the Latin villa, which together with via, a way, or more anciently ved and vella, Varro derives from veho, to carry, because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried.... Hence, too, the Latin word vilis and our vile, also villain. This suggests what kind of degeneracy villagers are liable to. They are wayworn by the travel that goes by and over them, without traveling themselves.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

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.

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? Doesn't that make life a story?

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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.

They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.

They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.

This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

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.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.