Top 100 Traveler Quotes
#2. After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.
Wallace Stegner
#3. Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.
Paul Theroux
#4. In Damascus:
the traveler sings to himself:
I return from Syria
neither alive
nor dead
but as clouds
that ease the butterfly's burden
from my fugitive soul
Mahmoud Darwish
#6. 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
#7. Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument
that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'
makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.
Michael Ignatieff
#9. In 1352, Ibn Batuta, the greatest Arab-language traveler of the Middle Ages, who had journeyed overland across Africa, Europe, and Asia, reported visiting the city of Taghaza, which, he said, was entirely built of salt, including an elaborate mosque.
Mark Kurlansky
#10. 'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
G. Willow Wilson
#11. People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
Bayard Taylor
#12. I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
Karl Pilkington
#13. The respect + love for humanity that's why I travel.
We are all special and gifted beings, no matter our religious differences. The message should be peace,
love and prosperity. There should be no adversity but solidarity.
Henry Johnson Jr
#14. I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler ... complicated, that is.
M.K. Alexander
#15. We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey.
Thomas S. Monson
#16. I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.
Brittany Murphy
#18. With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.
James Russell Lowell
#19. Traveler: good. Darkness: bad. You: shoot anything that moves.
Ian Frost
#20. A good traveler leaves no tracks.
Lao-Tzu
#21. To be engaged to marry some one with whom you are not in love is an inevitable step in a world where the existence of passion is only a traveler's story brought from the heart of deep forests and told so rarely that wise people doubt whether the story can be true.
Virginia Woolf
#22. But what is worse than all," observed the English traveler Isaac Weld, "these wretches in their combat endeavor to their utmost to tear out each other's testicles."31
Gordon S. Wood
#24. If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside." ~ The Traveler's Gift
Andy Andrews
#25. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber
#26. The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
E. E. Cummings
#27. Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.
Ben Chaplin
#28. A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
Jonathan Swift
#30. Prologue: There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich wanting more, that of the sick, wanting something different, and that of the traveler, who says, "anywhere but here." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mona Simpson
#31. History's peddler, chapman, drummer, canvasser, commercial traveler, hawker, and packman may be gone from our roadways. But their indomitable spirit and unflagging optimism, along with an understanding of human nature, will endure in each of us who choose to follow their lead.
Ronald Solberg
#32. Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books.
Paul Theroux
#34. And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine
A being breathing thoughtful breath
A traveler betwixt life and death
The reason firm the temperate will
Endurance Foresight Strength and skill
William Wordsworth
#35. When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.
Mike Greenberg
#36. As the life of the horse is in his legs, so the life of the traveler is in his feet, and good care should be taken of them.
Juliette De Bairacli Levy
#37. The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
[Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]
Juvenal
#38. The wisdom of other cultures is one of the greatest gifts that a traveler can bring home. It takes no room in your suitcase - only an open mind and an open heart.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#39. The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#40. There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
Walter Lippmann
#41. A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
Saadi
#42. Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.
Dorothy Gambrell
#43. I don't think someone's worth can be measured by the number of cities he visited, the number of countries he traveled to or the number of seas and oceans he crossed.
One can be a traveler even by simply going to the end of the street.
Laure Lacornette
#44. Life is a mysterious journey toward the unknown.
You are a very poorly informed and ignorant traveler.
Debasish Mridha
#45. The fog wasn't simply the steamy vapors off the bay caught and penned in by hills, but a soft breath of anonymity that shrouded and cushioned the bashful traveler.
Maya Angelou
#46. The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#47. For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.
Orhan Pamuk
#48. Some people had mixed feelings about this - they'd obviously been abandoned here, everyone was hungry and 911 wasn't even operational; on the other hand, no one wants to be a thief - but then a business traveler named Max said, "Look, everyone just chill the fuck out, I'll cover it with my Amex.
Emily St. John Mandel
#49. A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
Carlo Goldoni
#50. Oh, who would choose to be a traveler?
That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.
Arthur Guiterman
#51. A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.
Thomas H. Cook
#52. Watching a midforties Wonder Woman stumble backward into Hannah's net stack of Traveler magazines made me wonder if the very idea of Growing Up was a sham, the bus out of town you're so busy waiting for, you don't notice it never actually comes.
Marisha Pessl
#53. When you focus on the journey, you will be blessed with guardian angels to direct your path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#54. It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
Henry David Thoreau
#55. Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
Pico Iyer
#56. Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.
Ann Aguirre
#57. Hell, which as every frequent traveler knows, is in Concourse D of O'Hare Airport.
Dave Barry
#58. People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?
Tad Williams
#59. Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#60. No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
William Cowper
#61. An airport is a potent place, a point of reunions and departures. For the traveler, it's a crossroads at the moment of decision, a flashpoint that separates intention from retreat.
Ginger Bensman
#62. You start traveling and you travel and keep on traveling, that's how you become a traveler.
Abhishek Kumar
#63. The wise traveler [to Beirut] will pack shirts or blouses with ample breast pockets. Reaching inside a jacket for your passport looks too much like going for the draw and puts armed men out of countinence
P. J. O'Rourke
#64. Bro," said Roger. "You're a time traveler."
"No, I'm not," said Nate.
"Not yet, but maybe in the future.
Peter Clines
#65. I love to go out. I love the outdoors. I love outdoor sports. I'm a big traveler.
Sasha Alexander
#66. If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.
John Florio
#68. A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Oliver Goldsmith
#69. It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.
Henry David Thoreau
#70. Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world was operated with the aid of Roman gold coins which were accepted and admired everywhere.
Paul Einzig
#71. Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler.
Paul Theroux
#72. Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.
Italo Calvino
#74. The handkerchief is the universal utensil of the seasoned traveler. It can be a sanitizing device, a seat cover, a dust mask, a garrote, a bandage, a gag, or a white flag. One may feel well-prepared with nothing but a pocket square.
Josiah Bancroft
#75. I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck's cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel. About an hour later, we stopped to sell a few hundred of the chickens to a butcher shop.
Jennifer S. Alderson
#76. Traveler, there is no path, the path must be
forged as you walk.
Antonio Machado
#77. A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
Adam Zagajewski
#78. Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens
#80. I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!
Harry Melling
#81. A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
Henry David Thoreau
#82. A pilgrim is a fellow-traveler on the spiritual journey, not a professional guide.
Philip Yancey
#83. Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.
Lewis H. Lapham
#85. Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads
formed years and miles apart.
Gina Greenlee
#86. Every land has its own special rhythm, and unless the traveler takes the time to learn the rhythm, he or she will remain an outsider there always.
Juliette De Bairacli Levy
#87. There is a river whose waters give
immortality; somewhere there must be
another river whose waters take it away. The
number of rivers is not infinite; an immortal
traveler wandering the world will someday have
drunk from them all.
Jorge Luis Borges
#88. So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny!
Avijeet Das
#89. A girl from Pittsburgh was a good thing, like an anchor. Every homesick traveler should have one.
Kelly Link
#90. A British traveler remarked, 'There are [fashions in Guatemala] which it would require more than common charity to speak of with respect ... '
FILL IN YOUR OWN GRIPES! ;-)
Paul Theroux
#92. Sometimes just being on a beach with my loved ones is all the adventure I need. I am a happy camper and continue to be a citizen of the world. I have yet to discover other cultures, other peoples' dreams and treasures. I will always be a traveler who is discovering beautiful Gaia.
Guy Laliberte
#93. I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him across a great ocean.
Kim Wright
#94. My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'
Arnold J. Toynbee
#95. A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.
Pico Iyer
#96. It takes a traveler, not a tourist, to search for something deeper. Travelers want to find the wavelength on which they and the city connect.
David Levithan
#97. Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#98. 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
#100. I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.
Said Nursi
