Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Steinbeck

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

John Steinbeck

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

John Steinbeck

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

John Steinbeck

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

Marge Piercy

I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.

Theophile Gautier

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.

Terry Pratchett

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

Margaret Mead

as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own.

Michelangelo

Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Maya Angelou

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

Marilyn vos Savant

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

Laura Linney

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

Pharrell Williams

My ideal travel companions are my family.

Penny Lancaster

Im a pretty organised traveller.

Peg Bracken

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

Peg Bracken

one's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is ...

Marlene Dietrich

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

Marlene Dietrich

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

Marlene Dietrich

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

Maria Sharapova

I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.

Maria Sharapova

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

Terry Pratchett

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

Terry Pratchett

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Nat King Cole

If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

John Ruskin

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Mario Batali

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

Mason Cooley

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

Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.

Mason Cooley

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

Mason Cooley

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Margaret Oliphant

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.