Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

Oprah Winfrey

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

Oliver Goldsmith

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

Margaret Atwood

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

Margaret Thatcher

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Pope John Paul II

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

Phillip Adams

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Paulo Coelho

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

Paulo Coelho

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

Paulo Coelho

When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak....You begin to be more accessible to others, because they may be able to help you in difficult situations..

Paulo Coelho

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

Pico Iyer

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

Pico Iyer

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

Pico Iyer

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Pico Iyer

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

Pico Iyer

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Phillip Phillips

Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

Mike Greenberg

Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?

Mother Teresa

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Philip Glass

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

Terry Brooks

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Ted Allen

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

Lewis Mumford

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Lawrence Block

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

Lawrence Durrell

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Lawrence Durrell

Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.

Lawrence Durrell

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.