Best 2527 quotes in «travel quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

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.

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

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

To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.

To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

To travel is to possess the world

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

Travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Travelers must be content.

Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one 's own heart.)

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

Traveling isn't something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.

Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.

Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.