Best 2527 quotes in «travel quotes» category

My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

My witness is the empty sky.

Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER.

New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way.

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.

Number one way life would be different if dogs ran the world: All motorists must drive with head out window.

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.

Once a year go someplace you've never been.

Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.

Once more on my adventure brave and new.

Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.