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Travel Quotes


"And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives."



"Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game."


"I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there."



"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."


"We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem."



"I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog."



"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."



"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it."


"I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas."


"Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones."


"Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services."


"Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again."


"As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much."


"It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories."


"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."


"You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit."


"The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006."


"The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy."



"Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist."


"The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it."


"I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours."



"Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther."


"I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't."


"The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings."


"Grace was breathing heavily when she crested a hill that was a lot steeper than she had originally though. She stood looking over the land even as a cold breeze blew past her. She wrapped her arms around herself. Though she had traveled extensively all over Europe, she continued to set her stories in Scotland. Her father used to laugh about it, telling her that there must be something in Scotland drawing her to the land. She used to roll her eyes at his teasing. Now she wondered if he hadn't been right."
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