Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Richelle Mead

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

Rex Reed

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Rose Macaulay

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Rose Macaulay

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Truman Capote

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Richard M. Nixon

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

Richard Russo

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

Reba McEntire

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

Robert Duvall

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Roald Dahl

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

Richard Le Gallienne

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

Richard Burton

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

Vanessa Carlton

Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.

Robyn Davidson

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robert W. Service

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

Robert W. Service

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

Robert Runcie

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Sargent Shriver

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

Samuel Johnson

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

Samuel Johnson

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

Samuel Johnson

Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?

Vivienne Westwood

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Walter Benjamin

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

Virginia Woolf

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

Virginia Woolf

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

William Blake

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

Werner Herzog

Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.

Sally Ride

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

Virginia Graham

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

W. H. Auden

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.