Top 100 Travel City Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Travel City

#1. The best way to know a city is to eat it.

#2. 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

#3. The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.

Gina Greenlee

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The adventures of a lifetime begin with "Yes.

Gina Greenlee

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. as I travel the city / hating poetry & my haircut & all the things I do not / want to do

Rachel Zucker

#16. The alchemy of diamonds from the rough
is to mine every moment.

Gina Greenlee

#17. Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do.

Gina Greenlee

#18. You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.

Juliet C. Obodo

#19. Whether by plane, bus or carpet,
own the magic in your ride.

Gina Greenlee

#20. 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

#21. Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

Rick Kennedy

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

Gina Greenlee

#23. 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

#24. Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise.

Gina Greenlee

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#28. Coming into River City by bus would not have been my first choice. I didn't have much choice in the way of travel unless I wanted to drive and that's a task I hate doing, especially interstate. The equipment

Frank Zafiro

#29. Want more fizz in your life?
Shake things up.

Gina Greenlee

#30. No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you're out.

Gina Greenlee

#31. You'd be surprised who will back down when you speak up.

Gina Greenlee

#32. ...travel permits to Pyongyang were notoriously hard to get. In order to keep Pyongyang as a showcase city, the North Korean government restricted visitors.

Barbara Demick

#33. I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson

#34. New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

Kiran Desai

#35. You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

Erol Ozan

#36. The merchant increases the speed of the city. The musician slows it down. The merchant intensifies the urban stress, the noise, the chaos. The musician makes you slow down, find your center. This holds true in all cities and countries.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#37. Diving in IS testing the water.

Gina Greenlee

#38. No map? No problem. Let commitment and determination lead the way.

Gina Greenlee

#39. Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Tahir Shah

#40. 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

#41. Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.

Gina Greenlee

#42. Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.

Kahlil Gibran

#43. 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

#44. At chaos' core lies the invitation.

Gina Greenlee

#45. From the depths of your well, tap your will.

Gina Greenlee

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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,

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves.

Gina Greenlee

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. If you built the box, you can also break it down.

Gina Greenlee

#56. It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

Thucydides

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. If you want it badly enough, it's yours.

Gina Greenlee

#60. An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.

Gina Greenlee

#61. When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

Gina Greenlee

#62. 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

#63. Be courageous: be still.

Gina Greenlee

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

Scott Adams

#65. 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

#66. Give full attention to life's moments
and the images you capture will be everlasting.

Gina Greenlee

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. If it's true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

Gina Greenlee

#71. The loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

Willa Gibbs

#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. Like flowers blooming through cement,
we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.

Gina Greenlee

#77. 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

#78. Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish

Gina Greenlee

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. Whether you need to make a call or answer one,don't put your passions on hold.

Gina Greenlee

#85. Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.

Gina Greenlee

#86. 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

#87. Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

Giotto Di Bondone

#88. 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

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

Gina Greenlee

#90. 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

#91. Be who you are. You may not always please but you will never go wrong.

Gina Greenlee

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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