Quotes about travel
travel adventure history
Sally Ride All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
travel wife want
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.
travel artist difficult
W. H. Auden Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
travel son ships
Ursula K. Le Guin The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
travel cathedrals dedicated
Robert Hughes It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
travel home past
Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?
travel want good-times
Robert M. Pirsig We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....
travel ocean hands
Robert Louis Stevenson When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
travel horse bridges
Robert Louis Stevenson Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle
travel heaven wealth
Robert Louis Stevenson Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
travel moving cutting
Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
travel inspirational-life moving
Robert Louis Stevenson I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
travel pleasure felt
Vita Sackville-West travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen ...
travel want hong-kong
Vita Sackville-West Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
travel loneliness cases
Vita Sackville-West Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.
travel regret wish
Vita Sackville-West How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
travel journey tramps
Walt Whitman I tramp a perpetual journey.
travel strong library
Walt Whitman Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.
travel leaves-of-grass life-journey
Walt Whitman NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.
travel bangkok persons
Robin Leach Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.
travel traveling-alone originality
Rudyard Kipling He travels the fastest who travels alone.
travel drinking book
W. C. Fields Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
travel journey different
William Bartram The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.
travel adventure usa
Walter Lippmann The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
travel discovery soul
Walter Lippmann There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
travel funny-motivational adventure
Voltaire I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
travel men beckoning
William Least Heat-Moon The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
travel carpe-diem past
William Least Heat-Moon What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
travel adventure easy
William Least Heat-Moon Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
travel lying holiday
Winifred Holtby The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.
travel home names
Winston Churchill Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.
travel home men
Rudyard Kipling All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.