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The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

The journey itself is my home.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

The laws all true wanderers obey are these: 'Thou shalt not eat nor drink more than thy share,' 'Thou shalt not lie about the places thou hast visited or the distances thou hast traversed.

The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the United States.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back to the old hearthstone, the home to which, however traveled, the heart still fondly turns, ignoring the burden of its anxieties and cares.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

There are many paths through the Ring of Life. They are a constant movement toward self-fulfillment through growth of your mind, expansion of your experiences, widening of your senses and growing your spirit. It's ceaseless and constant throughout one's life.

There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.

There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.

There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.

There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.

There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.