Top 100 Home Travel Quotes
#1. Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again ...
Katharine Tynan
#2. 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?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses.
Gustave Flaubert
#5. When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a "make sure I have everything" glance. It was more like a parting glance to Philadelphia, my home, America- for I would not be coming back for ten months. (Ch 5- Twenty in Paris)
Andrea Bouchaud
#6. What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.
Paul Theroux
#7. We'd all be lucky in life if we had the chance to experience an unexpected adventure, and then make our way back safely to a place of comfort. Sometimes the only way we can appreciate our home and the simple happiness it has to offer is to be away from it for a while.
Noble Smith
#9. That's the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there's somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I've arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There's only a succession of waitings until you go home.)
David Gilmour
#10. I realized if I didn't just go, I'd never go. Going was the key. It didn't matter where I was headed just as long as I was headed somewhere. ~ Ben Davis
Jayden Hunter
#11. Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm just gon' sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.
Otis Redding
#12. The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.
Geoff Dyer
#13. I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
Barton Gellman
#14. When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
Francis Bacon
#15. Almost all of my jobs have been on locations. And I think you can be that person who says, 'I have a job that forces me to travel and I'm just going to go ahead and do it and pray for my next flight home.' Or 'this is where I am, this is my life, let me see a part of this world I now live in.'
Erin Cummings
#16. Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
Pico Iyer
#17. I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else ... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.
Agnetha Faltskog
#18. All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
Rudyard Kipling
#19. Born at Letterman Army Hospital. I never actually lived in San Francisco. It's not my home town, but then, I don't have one. I'm a nomad ... a gypsy ... an Army Brat. Put me on an airplane, send me anywhere. That's where I belong ... anywhere.
Marc Curtis
#20. 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.
Herman Melville
#21. I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.
John Steinbeck
#22. The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.
Ernest Renan
#23. My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.
Josh Turner
#24. I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#25. Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.
Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward,
Kahlil Gibran
#26. Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home.
Mary-Lou Weisman
#27. But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?
Noel Coward
#28. What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
Robert Frost
#29. Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
George Eliot
#30. People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.
Guy De Rothschild
#31. I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends.
Douglas Booth
#32. After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.
Nicolas Bouvier
#33. A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.
Margaret Oliphant
#34. Celebrity has become a burden. There are more demands on your time. People think it is glamorous to fly places. But it is not - even if you travel business class and stay in wonderful hotels, you end 10,000 miles away from home.
Nouriel Roubini
#35. Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.
Christopher Hitchens
#36. Hollywood was possible for a while! Why didn't I go along with it? Well, the other things that were pulling me back were more important. Being at home, being in the same marriage, these things enabled me to go off and travel in the first place.
Michael Palin
#37. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Anna Quindlen
#38. May the roads we travel never lead us astray, but if by chance we lose our way, may the echoes of laughter guide us back home some day.
Pamela Sparkman
#39. I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
Hannah Kearney
#40. The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self- government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.
Albert J. Beveridge
#41. I've got my life and 'Harry Potter,' where I travel the world, I make films, I meet amazing people, I do press junkets and stuff. And then I go back home to Leeds, where I live, and I've got the same friends from before.
Matthew Lewis
#42. The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
Faith Popcorn
#43. Have concern about where you're from, where you live, and where you may travel. The village is global.
T.F. Hodge
#44. If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
Park Chan-wook
#45. Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.
Beau Taplin
#46. London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day
Mhairi McFarlane
#47. In the Balkans the peasants say that if you long for faraway countries and leave your own land and home to find them, you are born under A LILAC-BLEEDING STAR.
Lesley Blanch
#48. The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.
Freya Stark
#49. All journeys eventually end in the same place, home.
Chris Geiger
#50. Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.
Catullus
#51. It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was wrong now wasn't I? You see because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, AND THE BLIZZARD WOULD HIT AGAIN!
Lewis Black
#52. You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
Tamsin Greig
#53. Travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.
Peg Bracken
#54. In the past five years, C. diff has spread across the globe, helped in large part by air travel, the availability and frequent use of antibiotics, and the graying of the world's population.
J. Thomas LaMont
#55. When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.
Tom Odell
#56. It's time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, because I can come home. I come home, because I am free to leave.
Gloria Steinem
#57. The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.
Paul Theroux
#58. In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
#59. Everywhere I travel around my home state of Wyoming - but also around the country - I continue to hear, 'How can Washington make us buy something we don't want to buy, a product? They can't tell us to buy breakfast cereal or something else - how can they do that?'
John Barrasso
#60. Everybody says they want to be happy, but very few people know what will really make them happy. Some people say they want money, but money is just printed paper. Some say they want to travel, but you can only travel so much and then you have to come home." He
Willee Amsden
#61. Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room.
Rick Steves
#62. I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.
S.A. Tawks
#63. All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.
Paul Theroux
#64. It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.
Matt Dillon
#65. With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.
Edmund De Waal
#66. Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#67. Looking back I can see that there have been no breaks from one departure to the next; I start planning again before we've even arrived back home.
Barbara Hodgson
#68. I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.
Evelyn Glennie
#69. The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home.
Steve Rubel
#70. I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.
Lake Bell
#71. Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#72. 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.
Fernando Pessoa
#73. I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
Rafael Nadal
#74. 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
#75. Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.
Michael Mewshaw
#77. A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it
Barbara Magro
#78. But our back is to legends and we are coming home. I suppose this is the first taste of it.'
'There is a long road yet,' said Gandalf.
'But it is the last road,' said Bilbo.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#79. When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.
John Patrick Shanley
#80. How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?
Caryl Churchill
#81. I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge.
James Blunt
#82. To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.
John Donne
#83. Before I was on 'Idol,' I just sat at home and played video games all day long. Now I get to travel and work towards my dream. It's the best feeling ever.
Jessica Sanchez
#84. Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.
Henry David Thoreau
#85. People travel because it's a treat. For me, staying at home is a treat.
Lloyd Dorfman
#86. It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.
Paul Theroux
#87. Travel is the best investment you can make in yourself. It teaches you that there are many ways to live a good, fulfilled life. It broadens your world view, yet makes you appreciate home all the more.
Joel Sartore
#88. I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.
Rick Steves
#89. May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
E. E. Cummings
#90. Foreign lands never yield their secrets to a traveller. The best they offer are tantalising snippets, just enough to inflame the imagination. The secrets they do reveal are your own - the ones you have kept from yourself. And this is reason enough to travel, to leave home.
Graeme Sparkes
#92. Tired with the Labour of Far Travel We Have Come unto Our Own Home O
Patrick Taylor
#93. Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#94. In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.
D.H. Lawrence
#95. I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.
Levon Helm
#96. Every journey brings you back home and to yourself.
Marty Rubin
#98. These Aussie girls are free to set their own courses in the world, to meander and experiment. Their travels are not bumps along the road - they are life itself. See the world and then come home and decide who you want to be in it, not the other way around, as seems the general trajectory in the U.S.
Rachel Friedman
#99. I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!
Henry David Thoreau
#100. How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.
Calvin Trillin
