Top 100 A Travel Quotes

#1. I want to move to the mountains. I want to live in a little cabin next to a towering, tenacious mountain fourteen thousand feet above sea level and eat a bowl of raisin bran every morning in its shadow.

Jess Riley

#2. Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.

Jane Clayson

#3. It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.

Peter Facinelli

#4. You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something.

Tim Cahill

#5. The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.

Jim Harrison

#6. After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

Wallace Stegner

#7. In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbor's house.

Tony Fernandes

#8. And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

Paul Fussell

#9. All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?

Gertrude Bell

#10. May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

E. E. Cummings

#11. The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

John Pomfret

#12. The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason why we have not been to Mars and will likely never go there successfully with humans.

Steven Magee

#13. Hope gives us a reason to live and to make plans for our future. But common sense gives us knowledge that God has control over our life. Life is a journey. We hope and plan our future as we travel each day.

Ellen J. Barrier

#14. When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

A.A. Milne

#15. People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

Daniel Kahneman

#16. Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?

Justine Bateman

#17. I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel ... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.

Catherine Deneuve

#18. All I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time.

Haruki Murakami

#19. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

Gina Greenlee

#20. The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

Paul Theroux

#21. Every voyage is a new glorious experience.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.

John Scalzi

#23. Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. it was often on trpis that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary.

Paul Bowles

#24. Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.

Albert Hadley

#25. By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

Thomas Hardy

#26. I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.

Candas Jane Dorsey

#27. Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

Ryu Murakami

#28. At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

Tasha Alexander

#29. To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

Emily Dickinson

#30. A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.

Sara Sheridan

#31. All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.

Jeff Greenwald

#32. I've become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.

Jan Morris

#33. The younger generation of rocket engineers is just beginning. They are of the new generation to which space travel is not going to be a dream of the future but an everyday job with everyday worries in which they will be engaged.

Willy Ley

#34. Well, we're originally from Glace Bay."

Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. "Tell me all about it, dear.

Beatrice Rose Roberts

#35. One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

Alice Walker

#36. I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.

Philip Treacy

#37. Maybe this is what travel gives you - or gives you back, in most cases - that childlike sense of wonder, and with it a kidstyle openness where you want to finger-paint with anyone and everyone who shows

Rachel Friedman

#38. Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Graham Greene

#39. Are you available to travel? What kind of questions were these? Was the second one even allowed in a job interview? Still, she'd answered as best she could and finally read a question that made sense:

Melody Anne

#40. Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

Pico Iyer

#41. I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

R.L. Stine

#42. You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Henry Miller

#43. Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#44. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#45. Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing interstellar travel. I believe it's possible they even came here.

Story Musgrave

#46. What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it's too late?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#47. Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

Vera Nazarian

#48. I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.

Dolly Parton

#49. I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

Bonnie Hammer

#50. We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

Jo Deurbrouck

#51. I feel as though I'm playing a part like those mummers who travel the roads, only I don't know the words properly, or how I'm supposed to act.

Mark Lawrence

#52. I do this system called TRX. It was developed by a Navy SEAL and is basically a simple cord that you can wrap around something anywhere, anytime, and you use your body weight as resistance. We installed one in our home gym, but you can also attach it to a tree. It's very easy to travel with.

Elizabeth Banks

#53. We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

Fiona McIntosh

#54. The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

Fred Allen

#55. Why do we live in a time where we only say what we feel when it's too late? We have evolved. We can split atoms and cure diseases and travel to other planets. Yet we can't say how we feel. We can't tell one another who we really are and be accepted for it.

M. Jonathan Lee

#56. Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.

W. Bruce Cameron

#57. Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded.

Alison Lurie

#58. The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.

Lily Cole

#59. [On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

Isabella Bird

#60. It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.

Claudio Reyna

#61. Don't travel alone ... meet up with others who are traveling also on the path of change, you can learn from each other a lot and together carry more learning experiences (social learning and collective intelligence). -Nadia Gabriela Dresscher

Lambert Of Maastricht

#62. In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory
horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene
and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#63. I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time ... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!

Marc Jacobs

#64. It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR. I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there and take a look at it, and you can make the determination as to how beautiful that country is.

George W. Bush

#65. Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land, ... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

Henry David Thoreau

#66. Each of us knew that the journey to exaltation would be long, strenuous, and sometimes lonely, but we also knew that we would not travel alone. Heavenly Father provides all who fulfill the prerequisites of faith, repentance, and baptism with a companion and guide, the Holy Ghost.

Keith K. Hilbig

#67. Time is a dream - or a nightmare - from which there is never any waking. We who travel in Time are dreamers who occasionally share a common experience.

Michael Moorcock

#68. Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. I have a strict rule: I don't work on Halloween and I won't travel on Halloween. Not for any reason.

Simon Sinek

#69. Welcome to my world! I've been through it all, and I often pinch myself to believe my luck. I design jewlery, create cosmetics, perform comedy, act, lecture, write books, travel, have a fabulous daughter, and a phenomenal grandson-and I feel I'm the luckiest woman on the planet.

Joan Rivers

#70. When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man.

Gregg Allman

#71. The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck.

Guy Kawasaki

#72. Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

Tahir Shah

#73. Every great day has a story and a song!

Faith Reese Martin

#74. I know you lost your partner in crime, but ... I want YOU to be MINE. Maybe WE should travel the world together, Camryn ... I know I can't replace your ex
"
"Andrew ... it was always you.

J.A. Redmerski

#75. Isn't it weird how you can fall in love with a place you've never even visited?

Jacquelyn Middleton

#76. Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.

Chanakya

#77. The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type ... Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

Brittany Maynard

#78. With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.

James A. Michener

#79. It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

Caroline Wozniacki

#80. In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

James Salter

#81. I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.

Jarvis Cocker

#82. I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough!

A.A. Bell

#83. Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.

William Gibson

#84. I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem like I've got a Brando idea going on, which I don't.

Hugh Laurie

#85. Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#86. In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.

Andrew Solomon

#87. We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

John Olver

#88. Unfortunately, daily routine is the last thing I have with all three kids, family life, work, foundation, and the amount of travel that I do! So truly, what I try to do to keep myself centered is take breaths in between and before I start a new thing throughout the day.

Camila Alves

#89. If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.

Miranda July

#90. We may travel the world over to find a good spot,
But if we are blind to search within, we find it not.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#91. Going slowly [ ... ] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

Paul Theroux

#92. You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.

Adam Mansbach

#93. There a dozen ways to skin a cat. All of them are illegal.

Ness Kingsley

#94. I got to travel around Anbar Province, had a great group of Marines who worked for me who traveled around Anbar Province. I got to hang out with a lot of different types of Marines and soldiers and sailors.

Phil Klay

#95. It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.

Madeleine L'Engle

#96. Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#97. The joy of travel does not lie in reaching the destination, but in the companions met with on the journey, the changing scenery through which the traveller passes, and even the inconveniences that break up the monotony of the ordinary routine life.

A.R. Calhoon

#98. Until now travel had always been a fraught affair. Each year until she was sixteen, it had been two weeks fighting with her sister in a caravan in Filey while her parents drank steadily and looked out at the rain, a sort of harsh experiment in the limits of human proximity.

David Nicholls

#99. My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad.

S.A. Tawks

#100. I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing.

Tommy Caldwell

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