Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurel Lea

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

John Keats

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

Lionel Richie

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

Lindsey Buckingham

I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.

Phil Collins

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Ralph Ellison

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

Lewis Carroll

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

Paul Theroux

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

John F. Kennedy

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

John Hope Franklin

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

Gayle Forman

Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

Loretta Young

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

Lord Byron

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

M. F. K. Fisher

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

Loren Eiseley

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Malcolm Gladwell

You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.

Freya Stark

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

Freya Stark

The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

Freya Stark

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

Madame de Stael

And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

James Taylor

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

James Thurber

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

James McAvoy

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

Emily Dickinson

To shut your eyes is to travel.

Ellis Peters

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

Ella Maillart

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

Hermann Hesse

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

Hermann Hesse

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

Hermann Hesse

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Hernando Cortes

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.