Top 100 Travel Home Quotes
#1. Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.
Amy Grant
#3. Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place - and still be home in time to have dinner.
Mary Pope Osborne
#4. We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.
Mark Twain
#5. It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. 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
#7. Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses.
Gustave Flaubert
#8. 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
#9. Then I'd go home, return to a pattern of worry, unable to tap the surrender core to travel's inspiration. What was different?
Gina Greenlee
#10. It's nice when you get to leave and travel and be busy and then come home.
Alia Shawkat
#11. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Kathleen Norris
#12. There's a place I travel when I want to roam, and nobody knows it but me./The roads don't go there and the signs stay home, and nobody knows it but me./ It's far, far away and way, way afar, it's over the moon and the sea/and wherever you're going that's wherever you are./And nobody knows it but me.
Patrick O'Leary
#13. 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
#14. The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#15. Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
Franz Grillparzer
#16. I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.
Bindi Irwin
#17. 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
#18. Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.
Winston Churchill
#19. To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world.
Charles Baudelaire
#20. Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.
J. Maarten Troost
#21. What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.
Charles De Lint
#22. The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.
Geoff Dyer
#23. People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.
Susan Sontag
#24. Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia.
Jan Morris
#25. We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.
Pico Iyer
#26. I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.
Curtis Stone
#27. But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?
Noel Coward
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends.
Douglas Booth
#31. I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.
Troy Gentile
#32. Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.
Henry David Thoreau
#33. 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
#34. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Anna Quindlen
#35. 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
#36. Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home.
Mary-Lou Weisman
#37. 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
#38. Travel causes some affliction of the eye, and after a while no place it rests looks like home.
Sean Russell
#39. Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
Pico Iyer
#40. I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
Ethan Embry
#41. Where you come from does matter
but not nearly as much as where you are headed.
Jodi Picoult
#42. This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.
Donald Evans
#43. Travel. Fly. Swim. Meet. Love. Dance. Win. Smile. Laugh. Hold. Walk. Skip. Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them.
Ned Vizzini
#44. I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to
and that is what adventures are all about.
Trina Schart Hyman
#45. When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.
Dolly Parton
#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 land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
Bob Dylan
#49. All journeys eventually end in the same place, home.
Chris Geiger
#50. I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.
Denise Richards
#52. Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.
Mason Cooley
#54. 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
#55. To pray is to communicate with the essence. Praying is calling home.
J.R. Rim
#56. I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.
Sydney Brenner
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Time. She had to go home. As soon as the lunar eclipse occurred in three weeks. Because if she stayed here, she would die. Either from the bullet in her back, or from the pain that was slowly sinking talons into her.
Shelly Thacker
#60. Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
Henry David Thoreau
#61. It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
#62. In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
#63. Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. It's so close, which is perfect because it's the minimal travel time.
Hilary Rhoda
#64. All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
Wale
#65. The few times I said to myself anywhere: 'Now that's a nice spot for a permanent home,' I would immediately hear in my mind the thunder of an avalanche carrying away the hundreds of far places which I would destroy by the very act of settling in one particular nook of the earth.
Vladimir Nabokov
#66. Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Matsuo Basho
#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. The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home.
Steve Rubel
#69. Better to stay home than travel in a hurry.
Marty Rubin
#70. I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.
Kenneth Tynan
#71. To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
Aldous Huxley
#72. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#77. 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
#78. Lots of travel, away from home.
Bob Hope
#79. I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.
Armand Assante
#80. The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.
Ernest Renan
#81. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith
#82. Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.
Sigmund Freud
#83. It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.
Rick Steves
#84. It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.
Selma Lagerlof
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,
And so am come abroad to see the world.
William Shakespeare
#88. I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.
Kate Klise
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.
John Lindsay
#92. The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.
Henry A. Kissinger
#93. My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.
Christopher Walken
#94. 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
#95. Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.
Helen Van Slyke
#96. Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.
Cynthia Ozick
#97. When I started in the music business, travel became a huge part of my world, where it hadn't been at all. I visited parts of the world that I'd never been to and found that I was spending maybe 30 days at home a year.
Josh Groban
#99. Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.
Mason Cooley
