Top 100 Quotes About City Travel
#1. Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.
Gina Greenlee
#2. 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.
Edwidge Danticat
#4. as I travel the city / hating poetry & my haircut & all the things I do not / want to do
Rachel Zucker
#5. The alchemy of diamonds from the rough
is to mine every moment.
Gina Greenlee
#6. Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do.
Gina Greenlee
#7. We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Mignon McLaughlin
#9. Whether by plane, bus or carpet,
own the magic in your ride.
Gina Greenlee
#10. I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
Yoko Ono
#12. Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
Truman Capote
#13. Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.
Rick Kennedy
#14. Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.
Apolo Ohno
#15. Most travel experts recommend that even if your final destination is Miami, it's better to fly to an airport in some other city - if necessary, Seattle - and take a cab from there. Or, as Savvy Air Traveler magazine suggests, 'simply jump out of the plane while it's still over the Atlantic'.
Dave Barry
#16. Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise.
Gina Greenlee
#17. There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.
Isaac Asimov
#18. Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
Tahir Shah
#19. 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
#20. Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish
Gina Greenlee
#21. Travel plucks us out of the worn routines of our lives and plops us down into a new culture, language, or city, and lets us figure life out. It strips the excess away and melts us down to our core. It teaches us that stuff doesn't make us happy - only experiences and being present do that.
Fred Perrotta
#22. When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first left Earth will be of huge importance. Star City is a central part of this story and it deserves more recognition.
Helen Sharman
#23. India offers exciting business opportunities owing to the growth in corporate travel and a significant middle-class population waiting to explore the world. To begin with, Travelex is setting up eight city centre branches in metros and other major cities including tourist destinations.
Lloyd Dorfman
#24. Singapore is what your city could become if everyone obeyed the rules, did their jobs diligently, and just shut up. When your city gets to be this paragon of efficiency and discipline, would you still want to live there? Singapore is a model city, which is terrific if you happen to be a model human.
Jessica Zafra
#25. There's something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.
Charlotte Eriksson
#26. When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner's eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there's the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice.
JR
#27. 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
#28. I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capitol city.
John Gimlette
#29. Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.
Gina Greenlee
#30. Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.
Kahlil Gibran
#31. At that hour the moon is almost entirely eaten away; it doesn't know where to go after reaching the city. The sky has to loosen its grip on the earth as day begins to break. The streets run steeply up and down, and the streetcars travel back and forth like rooms ablaze with light.
Herta Muller
#34. The trip from Portland to New York City was like climbing Mount Everest without oxygen. It went on and on, and by the time you reached your destination, there was no sensation left in your extremities.
Kristin Hannah
#35. I tend to pack light but still keep a large bag because I love to shop. For each destination I travel to, I like to buy something that the country or city is known for such as olive oil, truffle, jewelry, etc. I also like to buy perfumes because the smell brings me back to the memory of my travels.
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
#36. Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do ...
Ernest Hemingway,
#37. Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Italo Calvino
#38. To the traditional traveller - let alone travel writer - this might seem absurd. The whole point of travel is to go deep. To spend time in a place, to get under its skin. How can one possibly appreciate what makes a city or a country tick in a bare ten hours
Hugh Thomson
#39. I'll travel the sub-zero tundra
I'll brave glaciers and frozen lakes
And that's just the tip of the iceberg
I'll do whatever it takes
To change
Owl City
#40. The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour ... .
Oliver Evans
#41. The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#42. I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city.
Kate Klise
#43. Because I'm not really certain she'd make the best travel partner through a zombie-infested city, he hissed. She gets confused by Scrabble.
Jesse Petersen
#44. You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city ... you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.
Samuel R. Delany
#45. The distance between Mooreland in 1965 and a city like San Francisco in 1965 is roughly equivalent to the distance starlight must travel before we look up casually from a cornfield and see it.
Haven Kimmel
#46. I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over the city's ripped backsides and everything looks good tonight.
Iggy Pop
#47. Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.
Gina Greenlee
#48. For everyone who never smiled in school
photos, for all who've wandered city streets
not knowing the where they were
or feeling alone, I've packed kindness.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#49. There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.
Jan Morris
#51. I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.
Beverly Cleary
#52. I'm a reporter," Rachel said. "I write about the arts, festivals, new projects in the city. What I'm not is some kind of psychic astral traveler! How did I get here? Planning a trip to another dimension?
G.G. Collins
#54. An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.
Gina Greenlee
#55. When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.
Gina Greenlee
#56. It was during my first trip to America in 1953 - that's when I learned to visit museums. I was then 26 years old. When I travel, the first thing I do is to visit museums. When I go to New York City, I usually go to Broadway to see the shows.
John Gokongwei
#58. Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves.
Gina Greenlee
#59. If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
Eddie Trunk
#60. Give full attention to life's moments
and the images you capture will be everlasting.
Gina Greenlee
#61. With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don't have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble.
Brad Furman
#63. On average it took 22 days for news to travel between New York City and Charleston; and 26 days to reach Savannah.
Tom Wheeler
#64. I'm trying to travel more. Like, intentionally travel. I really want to go and implicate myself in a city and meet people and see how they live and get outside of my world a bit.
David Alpay
#65. As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game.
Jon Lester
#66. August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.
Ichiro Suzuki
#67. When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.
Donald Miller
#68. If it's true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.
Gina Greenlee
#69. Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot
#70. The loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.
Willa Gibbs
#71. Pack your bags and explore the most amazing places around Istanbul, Madrid or any other destination around the world with your virtual travel guide.
Madrid Travel Guide
#72. It's great for me to hear those different reactions because when I travel with a movie like this [World of Tommorow], it's very similar. You'll hear a line in one city get a big laugh, and then in another city, the same line kind of gets a gasp, and that's wonderful.
Don Hertzfeldt
#73. Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret.
Gina Greenlee
#74. Look in every city or any town. Travel by foot, or train or plane. Do not settle until there is love. For there, there will be the address of your happiness.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#75. If "Been there, done that" isn't your mantra,then make haste down your "bucket list.
Gina Greenlee
#76. Sometimes we have to break down to break through.
Gina Greenlee
#77. Whether you need to make a call or answer one,don't put your passions on hold.
Gina Greenlee
#78. Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.
Gina Greenlee
#79. I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a city and I have enough free time, I'd better go to a museum. I try to see parks, go outside. Or else try to feel really normal like go to Target or a drugstore, or go see a movie.
Lisa Loeb
#80. Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
Giotto Di Bondone
#81. I adore Madrid. It's my city. If I ever move, it will only be for work. Whenever I travel, I always want to get back home.
Maria Valverde
#82. Like flowers blooming through cement,
we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.
Gina Greenlee
#83. Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.
Tahir Shah
#84. Be who you are. You may not always please but you will never go wrong.
Gina Greenlee
#85. We believed Paris was the start of us. It's the kind of city that makes you think of beginnings, or even juicy middles. Paris is a book to savor, in whole or in part, at any time and in any season. At age ninety or at thirty-four, you can open any chapter and read from there.
Michelle Gable
#86. The ultimate [travel destination] for me would be one perfect day in San Francisco. There's no city like it anywhere. And, if I could be there with the girl of my dreams, that would be the ultimate!
Larry King
#87. Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.
Hamilton Leithauser
#88. Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.
Madonna Ciccone
#89. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.
Gina Greenlee
#91. hidden in this huge city beats in unison the heart of a whole people seeking to find their route to a better future.
Dulce Rodrigues
#93. You know that feeling when you first arrive in a new city? However tired you are, however shattered by the flight, you are impatient to get out and sample the streets, the life, the action.
Geoff Dyer
#94. If you've broken any promises you've made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.
Gina Greenlee
#95. No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.
Scott Adams
#96. When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.
Pedro Winter
#97. 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.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#98. Before I die I want to have kids. Live in London. Own a pet giraffe. Skydive. Divide by zero. Play the piano. Speak French. Write a book. Travel to a different planet. Be a better dad than mine was. Feel good about myself. Go to New York City. Know equality. Live.
Jennifer Niven
#99. If you built the box, you can also break it down.
Gina Greenlee
#100. It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
Thucydides
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