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Travel Quotes
"Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting."
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"An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel."
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"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
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"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
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"We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde."
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"We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own."
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"I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit."
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"For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening."
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"It was good to travel to the other side of the world."
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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
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"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel."
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"I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place."
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"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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"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."
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"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit."
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"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti."
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"Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country."
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"Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money."
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"As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much."
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"I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel."
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"There's something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave."
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"David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, i.e., that part of Bali which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of people who have come all this way to see Bali."
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"The best tourist is one without a camera."
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"I go, I go away, I walk, I wander, and everywhere I go I bear my shell with me, I remain at home in my room, among my books, I do not approach an inch nearer to Marrakech or Timbuktu. Even if I took a train, a boat, or a motor-bus, if I went to Morocco for my holiday, if I suddenly arrived at Marrakech, I should be always in my room, at home. And if I walked in the squares and in the sooks, if I gripped an Arab's shoulder, to feel Marrakech in his person - well, that Arab would be at Marrakech, not I : I should still be seated in my room, placid and meditative as is my chosen life, two thousand miles away from the Moroccan and his burnoose. In my room. Forever."
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"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
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"In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms."
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"I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel."
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"Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option."
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"I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog."
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"I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative."
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