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Travel Quotes


"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."


"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."


"I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects."


"You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city."


"I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with."


"I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure."


"My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection."


"We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions."


"I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone."


"However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries."


"Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa."


"It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep."


"You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering."


"I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases."


"Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam."



"A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam."


"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."


"Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by."


"When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat."


"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."


"Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go."


"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."


"If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer."


"Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else."


"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."


"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."


"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."



"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."


"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."


"There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her."


"We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde."


"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something."
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