Best 2527 quotes in «travel quotes» category

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like, 'What do I do ... I don't really ... ha-huh ...' Yeah, it's the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

When you're on a sleeper at night, take your pocketbook and put it in a sock under your pillow. That way, the next morning you won't forget your pocketbook cause you'll be looking for your sock.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

You can pack a bag and take a plane somewhere, anywhere, and when you get there and open the bag - lying right on top will be whatever you're running away from. The very first thing you'll have to unpack.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

ABC on that bed sheet, words on that book, well i am on a curiosity voyage and i need my paddles to travel, so books r my paddles (Ejump, 2017)

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

A bad leader wouldn't stress the importance of staying together to stop the enemy. You want peace? You can't forgive the enemy, if you can't forgive your men for losing faith. You can't force every one single Union deserter to fight, but I know, only you can inspire every deserter to fight for their cause." - Amelia Raht

A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.

Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You're headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. You push on, toward the final ascent into the valley. In front of you is a monster mountain-El Capitan. Your eyes grow wide. You take a deep breath. Suddenly, you feel only wonder.

You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

AAAAHHHHHHHhhhhh! WHOOSH, WHOOSH, YOU BASTARD!

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.