Best 2527 quotes in «travel quotes» category

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.

However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place.

I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

I am very little of a traveler.

I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others would not know of it; that difference and distance are one. To set about living a true life is to go on a journey to a distant country, gradually to find ourselves surrounded by new scenes and men; and as long as the old are around me, I know that I am not in any true sense living a new or a better life.

I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards.

Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days!

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane.

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

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

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.