Best 2527 quotes in «travel quotes» category

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself.

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

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.

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.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.

I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

I was born to travel and write verse.

I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

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

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

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

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.