Best 2527 quotes in «travel quotes» category

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes a long way with me.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

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.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

By now, a million pedal strokes have etched the muscles in my legs with a single purpose: to power the crank and move the bicycle forward. Food flows into my body, bringing it power and strength. It is no longer a question of struggle. Now the journey evolves into the spiritual realm-where the pedaling becomes instinctive. It's a free-flow of energy that comes through my body and willingly expresses itself in the flight of the pedals.

California: Sunny nutland.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

Continued traveling is far from productive. It begins with wearing away the soles of the shoes, and making the feet sore, and erelong it will wear a man clean up, after making his heart sore into the bargain. I have observed that the afterlife of those who have traveled much is very pathetic.

Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.

Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

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.

Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.

Do not tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you have traveled, and I will know how educated you are.

Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated … save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem … but a miracle … that the thoughts of living men … should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

Every land has its own special rhythm, and unless the traveler takes the time to learn the rhythm, he or she will remain an outsider there always.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

Everything good is on the highway.

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.