Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the most agreeable places in which to spend the noon., commanding the finest views, because commonly there is no water there, or you cannot get there with your horse.

Henry David Thoreau

This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit it, wondering what it is tempts men to live in it; but anon I leave the towns behind and am lost in some boundless heath, and life becomes gradually more tolerable, if not even glorious.

Henry David Thoreau

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

Iggy Pop

I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over the city's ripped backsides and everything looks good tonight.

Iain Sinclair

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Howard Gardner

Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.

Hortense Calisher

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

Hortense Calisher

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

Jamaica Kincaid

An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

Jenny McCarthy

When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.

Graham Nash

Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

Isak Dinesen

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

Ilka Chase

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

Izaak Walton

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Ellen DeGeneres

The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known.

Francis Quarles

We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.

Homer

One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

Giotto di Bondone

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

Ivan Lendl

I just travel all the time.

Hunter S. Thompson

Wake up and ponder the future

When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

Arthur Smith

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

A. R. Ammons

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

A. E. Housman

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

A. A. Milne

Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.

Agatha Christie

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

Travel in 2006 is all about the family.

Baz Luhrmann

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Dalton Trumbo

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

David Byrne

We're on a road to nowhere, come on inside. Takin' that ride to nowhere, we'll take that ride. I'm feelin' okay this mornin', and you know, we're on the road to paradise, here we go, here we go.