Small Travel Quotes

#1. A flock of small birds took off from the wall of the fort. They moved like a length of dark silk caught by the breeze as they headed out to sea. Behind them, the sky was the colour of forget-me-nots. The sun blazed.

Sara Sheridan

#2. Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

Gina Greenlee

#3. What one learns in a classroom is just a very small part of learning process . The real learning starts when one crosses borders and travels miles for the real knowledge.

Vivek Sahni

#4. Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

#5. Nature has unlimited time in which to travel along tortuous paths to an unknown destination. The mind of man is too feeble to discern whence or whither the path runs and has to be content if it can discern only portions of the track, however small.

Karl Von Frisch

#6. If you throw a stone in a pond ... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course ... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#7. Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?

Alexandra Bracken

#8. I travel all the time, and I have two small children.

Hope Davis

#9. When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!

Zoe McLellan

#10. You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

Adriana Trigiani

#11. A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.

Cyril Connolly

#12. I love my cooking tools because I enjoy cooking - a Vitamix for smoothies and a rice cooker for steel-cut oats. I travel with a small rice cooker. I soak oats overnight, and when I get up, I just turn the rice cooker on, and it cooks the oats perfectly every time.

John Mackey

#13. But i would love to write something, maybe a book. I want to travel to a small town someday - one with fir trees and snowcapped mountains. Than I would spend an entire winter writing to my heart's content.

Lang Leav

#14. I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far / I only wanted a little bit of love so I could put a little love in my heart / I never wanted to be la-de-da, go to parties 'avec le bourgeois' / I only wanted to sing my song well so I could ring a small bell in your heart

Yusuf Islam

#15. Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

John Steinbeck

#16. I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

Diana Gabaldon

#17. I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.

Daley Thompson

#18. You can't make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?

S.R. Crawford

#19. He had further narrowed his mind by a considerable amount of travel abroad, where he had again always made his way to the small hotels.

Patrick Hamilton

#20. The couch and I were what I would describe as frenemies. I loved to hate it. It was too small for my frame. I had tried to tell my wife that fact when we bought it off of Craigslist, but she assured me that it went perfectly with our room decor and it was a good deal.

Anna M. Aquino

#21. I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

Walton Goggins

#22. How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.

Vita Sackville-West

#23. The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They're right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#24. So travel with me, beyond the small illusions. Dance with me among the clouds, where infinite dreams show not-yet-discovered truths of being. Let the wind whisper passionately against your mouth, inhale deep the endless creativity, dance with the fluttering petals of my spirits concerto.

Cheri Bauer

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

J.R. Rim

#28. Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

Henry David Thoreau

#29. Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

Ernest Hemingway,

#30. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

Anthony Bourdain

#31. This visit has compacted the court's quarrels and intrigues, trapped them in the small space within the town's walls. The travelers have become as intimate with each other as cards in a pack: contiguous, but their paper eyes blind.

Hilary Mantel

#32. I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity.

Frances Xavier Cabrini

#33. I travel way too much to have any pets. But if I could have one, I'd want a quokka. They're basically small kangaroos native to Western Australia.

Justine Larbalestier

#34. I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

Evelyn Waugh

#35. I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.

Baltasar Kormakur

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

E. E. Cummings

#37. Paris was all so ... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!

David Nicholls

#38. At some point, the government expands into the private sphere so far that you live in a place with a whole lot less freedom. I didn't like that that was the direction of travel for our country, and decided to come to Washington to try and be a small part of bringing it back.

Mike Pompeo

#39. To read the papers and to listen to the news ... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

Charles Kuralt

#40. Hunch is your brain's way of taking a shortcut to the truth.'
'In small towns news travel at the speed of boredom'.

Carlos Luiz Zafon

#41. A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story.

Rachel Lewis

#42. Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.

Farley Mowat

#43. Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

Leonardo Da Vinci

#44. I suppose, because I am a sportsman and travel all over Australia, I see every day Australians doing small and large and often unnoticed deeds; many times I thought how nice it would be for them to be recognised, so I hope somehow that in receiving this honour that I represent these people.

Steve Waugh

#45. Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

Robert Breault

#46. I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

Chris Isaak