Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Theroux

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

Paul Theroux

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

Paul Theroux

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

Paul Theroux

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

Paul Theroux

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Paul Theroux

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

Judith Thurman

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

Elvis Presley

Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet.

John Burroughs

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Lloyd Alexander

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

John Glenn

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

John F. Kennedy

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

Jonathan Edwards

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

James Lane Allen

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Jimi Hendrix

It's very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there - if we travel by my dragon-fly. No, it's not in Spain, but all the same you know, it's a groovy name. And the wind's just right. Hang on, my darling, hang on if you wanna go. Hear it's a really groovy place. It's, uh, just a little bit of uh, Spanish Castle Magic.

Jimi Hendrix

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

Jim Morrison

Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.

Jim Morrison

A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving

Emmanuelle Beart

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

Emma Watson

When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.

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.

John Donne

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

Joe Harris

Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away.

George Ade

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

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.

Gayle Forman

Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.

Gayle Forman

Traveling isn't something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing.

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.